Rethinking health numeracy: a multidisciplinary literature review.
The purpose of this review is to organize various published conceptions of health numeracy and to discuss how health numeracy contributes to the productive use of quantitative information for health. We define health numeracy as the individual-level skills needed to understand and use quantitative health information, including basic computation skills, ability to use information in documents and non-text formats such as graphs, and ability to communicate orally. We also identify [...]
Author(s): Ancker, Jessica S, Kaufman, David
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M2464