Iris Feinberg|Jane Yoon|David Holland|Rodney Lyn|Lia Scott|Kevin M. Maloney|Richard Rothenberg
The Relationship between Health Literacy and COVID-19 Vaccination Prevalence during a Rapidly Evolving Pandemic and Infodemic
Georgia State University|Georgia State University|Emory University|Georgia State University|Georgia State University|Georgia State University|Georgia State University
gap health information communicated people understand use make informed health decisions called health literacy gap exacerbated rapidly changing excessive volume information misinformation disinformation covid19 pandemic people lower health literacy may understood importance covid19 vaccination communities aim understand health literacy levels within fulton county georgia relationship vaccine prevalence fulton county residents ages 18 n 425 completed online health literacy questionnaire individual organizational functional interactive critical health literacy scales created vaccination prevalence data collected georgia vaccine distribution dashboard data divided one three county areas statistically significant variations vaccine prevalence 23 29325 p lt 0001 among three county areas levels health literacy predicted overall county vaccination prevalence f 4420 85941 p lt 0001 significant differences health literacy levels among two three county area pairs lowest resourced county area lowest vaccination prevalence health literacy rates first example relating direct health literacy measures across major metropolitan us county vaccine prevalence data