articleTop 1% cited

Health Literacy and Preventive Health Care Use Among Medicare Enrollees in a Managed Care Organization

Medical Care · 2002 · Vol. 40(5) · pp. 395–404

Tracy Scott✉(Emory Healthcare)Julie A. Gazmararian✉(Emory Healthcare)Mark V. Williams(Emory University)David W. Baker(MetroHealth Medical Center)

View via DOI Publisher page

Abstract

Among Medicare managed care enrollees, inadequate health literacy is independently associated with lower use of preventive health services.

Health Literacy and Information Accessibility Mobile Health and mHealth Applications Global Cancer Incidence and ScreeningMedicineHealth literacyFamily medicineHealth careManaged careMedicaidGerontology

MeSH terms

AgedAttitude to HealthCross-Sectional StudiesEducational StatusFemaleHealth EducationMedicareHealth StatusHumansInfluenza VaccinesHealth Knowledge, Attitudes, PracticeMaleMammographyManaged Care ProgramsPreventive Health Services

Citations

746

FWCI

22.22

field-weighted impact

References

Percentile

100%

vs. same field & year

Citations per year

Cited by

The grounded psychometric development and initial validation of the Health Literacy Questionnaire (HLQ)

BMC Public Health · 2013 · 1,311 citations

Literacy and health outcomes

Journal of General Internal Medicine · 2004 · 2,301 citations

Associations of health literacy with socioeconomic position, health risk behavior, and health status: a large national population-based survey among Danish adults

BMC Public Health · 2020 · 627 citations

Limited literacy and mortality in the elderly

Journal of General Internal Medicine · 2006 · 470 citations

References

Health literacy and the risk of hospital admission

Journal of General Internal Medicine · 1998 · 834 citations

Relationship of Functional Health Literacy to Patients' Knowledge of Their Chronic Disease

Archives of Internal Medicine · 1998 · 1,162 citations

The Mini‐Mental State Examination: A Comprehensive Review

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 1992 · 5,074 citations

The MOS Short-form General Health Survey

Medical Care · 1988 · 3,336 citations

Citation Network

How this paper connects to the literature. Drag to explore, click any node to open that paper.