Racial Disparities in Health Literacy and Access to Care Among Patients With Heart Failure

Abstract

Background-Previous work has shown that there is a higher frequency of hospitalizations among black heart failure patients relative to white heart failure patients. We sought to determine

Health Literacy Associated With Blood Pressure but not Other Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors Among Dialysis Patients

“…Health literacy differed across racial and ethnic groups such that blacks had lower health literacy, a finding that has been demonstrated in other studies. 37 Racial disparities in BP control among individuals with late CKD have been documented. 38 In our study, race was not a statistically significant predictor of various BP measures.…”

Health literacy, socioeconomic status and self-rated health in Japan

“…However, those studies focussed mainly on functional HL (Williams et al, 1998a,b;Kalichman et al, 2000;Schillinger et al, 2002;Laramee et al, 2007;Guerra et al, 2008;Chaudhry et al, 2011). Despite recent calls for measuring HL in a community setting (Nutbeam, 2008;Pleasant and Kuruvilla, 2008;Peerson and Saunders, 2009), studies have been limited to measuring HL and health in a community (Wolf et al, 2005;Wolf et al, 2007;Bennett et al, 2009;Wolf et al, 2010).…”

Characteristics, quality of care, and in-hospital outcomes of Asian-American heart failure patients: Findings from the American Heart Association Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure Program

“…The annual total cost for HF in 2012 was $32 billion and the cost will increase 127% by 2030 reaching $70 billion [2,3]. Racial and ethnic disparities in HF care have been documented in prior studies [4][5][6][7][8][9]. For example, compared with white patients, blacks and Hispanics are at greater risk of developing HF at a younger age and are more likely to experience increased morbidity and possibly higher risk of mortality [6,8,9].…”