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Journal of Consumer Affairs

Latest Issue: 06/22/2009

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1. Health literacy for improved health outcomes: effective capital in the...
Improving consumers' health literacy addresses many of the rising problems in healthcare. We empirically support a reconceptualization of health literacy as a social and cultural ...
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2. Health insurance literacy of older adults.
We developed an instrument to measure dimensions of health insurance literacy reflecting familiarity with health insurance terminology and proficiency with the Medicare program. The instrument's ...
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3. The roles of gender and motivation as moderators of the effects of calorie...
Given substantial concern about the many negative consequences associated with the American obesity epidemic, legislation which would require chain restaurants to provide nutrition information on ...
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4. Misguided optimism among college student smokers: leveraging their...
College student smokers are a unique group who typically plan to quit smoking by the time they graduate, but few succeed and those who do ...
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5. The effectiveness of cigarette warning label threats on nonsmoking...
This experiment investigated three levels of threat in cigarette warning labels: no warning/text warning only/text + graphic warning. Teenagers in Canada and the US were ...
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6. Health information consumers can't or don't want to use.
As a consumer education issue, health literacy asks what is needed for people to make rational informed decisions. As a consumer protection issue, it questions ...
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7. The impact of consumers' health literacy on public health.
The disturbingly low rates of health literacy in the United States translate into increased health risks across society as a whole, and vulnerable populations, in ...
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8. On break-up cliches guiding health literacy's future.
With the recognized need to increase health literacy, some practices have not worked and, therefore, "should be dumped." Herein we present alternative approaches that may ...
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9. Using the thrifty food plan to assess the cost of a nutritious diet.
The federal government's Thrifty Food Plan (TFP) minimizes the difference between a proposed food plan and a current consumption bundle, subject to cost and nutrition ...
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10. Complex sample design effects and health insurance variance estimation.
Fifty-one articles using complex sample data published between 2000 and 2007 in three journals are reviewed. Of these, three articles indicate whether the analyses account ...
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