Talk:Health literacy

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Suggestions
whoever you are, you violated your own suggestions with your revisions of the revisions. the more useful and polite approach would have been to ask for citations here or realize the citations were already embedded within the page if you simply knew the literature being cited ... versus your wholesale deletes. Really disrespectful of you. Go edit somewhere else please. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.85.178.161 (talk) 02:36, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I reinserted the definition of health literacy that has been the lead sentence on this page since it was created. See # 5 below. There is an accepted way to introduce controversy about ideas in Wikipedia articles, but in a fashion that is balanced and informs about both sides. Statements such as those in #3 below are just polemics. Pardon me, but I don't see a bona fide citation acceptable to Wikipedia. I suggest that you review the Help pages, neutral point of view, citation styles and other policies of making edits on Wikipedia before making any more edits. Almost everything you did to edit this article was wrong, as I detailed in my comment below. Including placing this comment in the wrong place on this page, and not signing it.  Ryanjo (talk) 02:47, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Edits by 67.85.178.161
I have reverted recent changes by user 67.85.178.161.

Usually, substantial changes to a researched and referenced article should be introduced on this discussion page first.

In general, there are the following issues:

1. The edit summaries are blank (see Wikipedia: Edit summary).

2. There are no references given for the statements:
 * There is no single definition of health literacy currently accepted by all practitioners or researchers.,
 * According to the National Assessment of Adult Literacy, fully 88% or nearly 9 out of 10 American adults are below the proficient level in health literacy. Hundreds of studies demonstrate that most of the information distributed by the health care system is at the proficient level.,
 * Several tests of health literacy have been developed, but none are complete measures of health literacy and all suffer various methodological concerns despite their use in research studies.

3. Statements such as:
 * That definition unfortunately places the burden on the public and not the health care system and is oriented toward gaining patient "compliance" rather than entering into an equal relationship between the health care system and the public. ,
 * The mismatch is clear.,
 * ... it may increase the shame people with low health literacy experience
 * express personal conclusions, not referenced facts, and violate Wikipedia policies against original research (WP:NOR) and neutral point of view (NPOV).

4. Please do not remove references that don't agree with an editor's opinion.

5. Beginning the article with the statement There is no single definition of health literacy currently accepted by all practitioners or researchers is of no value to the reader looking for the definition. Controversies about the definition should be illustrated in the body of the article and appropriately referenced. See WP:V.

Ryanjo (talk) 20:26, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Blocked editor's contributions
In October 2015 gave a timeline of of the history of health literacy. This information is not properly cited but may contain useful suggestions. blocked this user. They might have been promoting https://www.iha4health.org, seemingly a commercial organization which presents a conference. Still I would have welcomed the contribution with formatting, better citations, and disclosure, and hope they take Diannaa's cue to disclose and comply with user naming guidelines.  Blue Rasberry  (talk)  17:46, 20 November 2015 (UTC)

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Adding Content about Outcomes and Improvements
Hello all,

I am planning to add some more content to this Wiki article in the upcoming days. I intend to make two primary changes:


 * Increase information about the functioning of health literacy among individuals facing homelessness and housing insecurity and add more information about outcomes of low health literacy in the “Patient Safety and Outcomes” section.
 * Add information about ways to improve low health literacy as discussed by systematic reviews in the “Improvements” section.

I hope these changes sit well with all whose contributions have made this article a reliable source for many seeking information about Health Literacy.

Thank you. Gabbyblandino (talk) 01:56, 14 December 2018 (UTC)gabbyblandino

Removal of sections
I'd like to suggest the removal of the sections Alternative Approaches great and Oral health literacy in school teachers of Mangalore, India. Both are soley based on single studies that aren't frequently cited it seems odd to give them their own section.

Has anyone actually read reference 4 (Ilgun et al., 2015)?
Hi everyone,

I just finished reading the paper by Ilgun et al (2015-02-12). "Health Literacy". Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences. International Conference on New Horizons in Education, INTE 2014, 25–27 June 2014, Paris, France. 174: 2629–2633. doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.01.944. ISSN 1877-0428; Cited in the article here (reference 4).

This paper is poorly written, and although Social and Behavioral Sciences is a decent journal, they really seemed to drop the ball with this paper. Some sections of the paper are just nonsensical, and so poorly written making it difficult to follow and understand. For example, see the Introduction of the paper: "To shorten length of treatment period and to increase nursing quality is directly proportional with adaptation level to recommendations given by doctor. Following doctor’s advice is related to the communication quality of doctor and patient (Russo-Innamorato, 2011). Doctor-patient relationship takes shape according to personalities of doctor and the patient. As well, doctorpatient relationship affect from many factors such as cultural, social, economic, psychological and ethics (Koch and Turgut, 2004)" The text is poorly written and is not very clear, and this problem is throughout this paper.

Is this really a reference that should be cited in wikipedia? Aren't there any better references to cite on this topic?

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