Kimberly A. Kaphingst|Melody S. Goodman|Owen Pyke|Jewel D. Stafford|Christina Lachance
Relationship Between Self-Reported Racial Composition of High School and Health Literacy Among Community Health Center Patients
Washington University in St. Louis|Stony Brook University|Stony Brook University|Stony Brook University|National Human Genome Research Institute|National Institutes of Health
intervention policy approaches targeting societal factors affect health literacy eg educational systems could promise improve health outcomes little research investigated factors study examined associations selfreported racial composition prior educational neighborhood contexts health literacy among 1061 english spanishspeaking adult community health center patients authors found selfreported racial composition high school significant predictor health literacy among received schooling united states controlling raceethnicity education age country birth survey language black hispanic patients significantly lower health literacy white patients within educational strata among schooled united states findings revealed substantial disparities health literacy selfreported racial composition school context significant predictor health literacy transdisciplinary multilevel intervention approaches likely needed address health literacy needs population