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Health Literacy and Cardiovascular Disease: Fundamental Relevance to Primary and Secondary Prevention: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association
- Source :
- Circulation. 138(2)
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- Health literacy is the degree to which individuals are able to access and process basic health information and services and thereby participate in health-related decisions. Limited health literacy is highly prevalent in the United States and is strongly associated with patient morbidity, mortality, healthcare use, and costs. The objectives of this American Heart Association scientific statement are (1) to summarize the relevance of health literacy to cardiovascular health; (2) to present the adverse associations of health literacy with cardiovascular risk factors, conditions, and treatments; (3) to suggest strategies that address barriers imposed by limited health literacy on the management and prevention of cardiovascular disease; (4) to demonstrate the contributions of health literacy to health disparities, given its association with social determinants of health; and (5) to propose future directions for how health literacy can be integrated into the American Heart Association’s mandate to advance cardiovascular treatment and research, thereby improving patient care and public health. Inadequate health literacy is a barrier to the American Heart Association meeting its 2020 Impact Goals, and this statement articulates the rationale to anticipate and address the adverse cardiovascular effects associated with health literacy.
- Subjects :
- Gerontology
medicine.medical_specialty
Health literacy
Disease
Article
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Patient Education as Topic
Risk Factors
Physiology (medical)
medicine
Prevalence
Secondary Prevention
Relevance (law)
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
Social determinants of health
Association (psychology)
030505 public health
business.industry
Public health
American Heart Association
Health equity
United States
Health Literacy
Primary Prevention
Cardiovascular Diseases
Mandate
0305 other medical science
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15244539
- Volume :
- 138
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Circulation
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....ba9e192c7e0f7224d66229df75e4df8f