As we note in our original report (and reiterate above), several of the primary instruments used to measure health literacy are highly correlated with general measures of literacy applied in the health care This suggests that health literacy and literacy measures are strongly related. It has additionally raised questions about what terminology to apply to measures in the In this review, in distinction to our earlier report, we focus on “health literacy” rather than “literacy.” We made this decision for several reasons. First, we were interested in expanding our review to be consistent with the recent conceptions of health.
