Journal
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH
Volume 6, Issue 3, Pages 108-112Publisher
JMIR PUBLICATIONS, INC
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.6.3.e26
Keywords
health; literacy; socioeconomic status (SES); African Americans; Internet; comprehension; health behavior
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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.
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