Open Access<p>Effects of Estimated Community-Level Health Literacy on Treatment Initiation and Preventive Care Among Older Adults with Newly Diagnosed Diabetes</p>
Author(s) -
Gang Fang,
Stacy Cooper Bailey,
Izabela E. Annis,
Michael K. PaascheOrlow,
Michael S. Wolf,
Laurie T. Martin,
Michael Emch,
M. Alan Brookhart,
Karen B. Farris
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
patient preference and adherence
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.885
H-Index - 48
ISSN - 1177-889X
DOI - 10.2147/ppa.s211784
Subject(s) - medicine , health literacy , diabetes mellitus , literacy , hazard ratio , gerontology , health care , type 2 diabetes , community health , medicaid , family medicine , public health , nursing , confidence interval , endocrinology , economics , economic growth
Individual measures of health literacy are not feasible for administration on a large scale, yet estimates of community-level health literacy in the US recently became available. We sought to investigate whether community-level health literacy estimates are associated with the initiation of oral antihyperglycemic agents (OHA) and the use of standard preventive care services among older adults with newly diagnosed diabetes.