BackgroundLow health literacy is associated with poorer health and higher mortality. Complex health materials are a barrier to health.
AimTo assess the literacy and numeracy skills required to understand and use commonly used English health information materials, and to describe population skills in relation to these.
Design and settingAn English observational study comparing health materials with national working-age population skills.
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