TY  - JOUR
AU  - Birru, Mehret S
AU  - Steinman, Richard A
PY  - 2004
DA  - 2004/9/3
TI  - Online Health Information and Low-Literacy African Americans
JO  - J Med Internet Res
SP  - e26
VL  - 6
IS  - 3
KW  - Health
KW  - literacy
KW  - socioeconomic status (SES)
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Internet
KW  - comprehension
KW  - health behavior
AB  - African Americans with low incomes and low literacy levels disproportionately suffer poor health outcomes from many preventable diseases. Low functional literacy and low health literacy impede millions of Americans from successfully accessing health information. These problems are compounded for African Americans by cultural insensitivity in health materials. The Internet could become a useful tool for providing accessible health information to low-literacy and low-income African Americans. Optimal health Web sites should include text written at low reading levels and appropriate cultural references.  More research is needed to determine how African Americans with low literacy skills access, evaluate, prioritize, and value health information on the Internet. 
SN  - 1438-8871
UR  - http://www.jmir.org/2004/3/e26/
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2196/jmir.6.3.e26
UR  - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15471752
DO  - 10.2196/jmir.6.3.e26
ID  - info:doi/10.2196/jmir.6.3.e26
ER  -