In case someone hasn’t caught on yet, health literacy is impossible without language accessibility. How important is health literacy? Lives depend on it.
These are from the Journal of the International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care.
Association Between Health Literacy and HIV Treatment Adherence: Further Evidence from Objectively Measured Medication Adherence
Seth C. Kalichman, Howard Pope, Denise White, Chauncey Cherry, Christina M. Amaral, Connie Swetzes, Jody Flanagan, and Moira O. Kalichman
J Int Assoc Physicians AIDS Care (Chic Ill) 2008;7 317-323
Nonadherence Increases the Risk of Hospitalization Among HIV-Infected Antiretroviral Naïve Patients Started on HAART
Sarah J. Fielden, Melanie L. A. Rusch, Benita Yip, Evan Wood, Kate Shannon, Adrian R. Levy, Julio S. G. Montaner, and Robert S. Hogg
J Int Assoc Physicians AIDS Care (Chic Ill) 2008;7 238-244
and this:
Promoting HIV Literacy
José M. Zuniga
J Int Assoc Physicians AIDS Care (Chic Ill) 2008;7 215-216
and finally this:
Profile of Communication Disorders in HIV-Infected Individuals: A Preliminary Study
Mili Mary Mathew and Jayashree S. Bhat
J Int Assoc Physicians AIDS Care (Chic Ill) 2008;7 223-227
