Consumer Health Information

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A point-of-sale communications campaign to provide consumers safety information on drug-dietary supplement interactions: a pilot study. 
  • A usability problem: conveying health risks to consumers on the Internet. 
  • Beyond surface characteristics: a new health text-specific readability measurement. 
  • Can multilingual machine translation help make medical record content more comprehensible to patients? 
  • Choosing front-of-package food labelling nutritional criteria: how smart were 'Smart Choices'? 
  • Consumer health concepts that do not map to the UMLS: where do they fit? 
  • Consumers' Response to an On-Shelf Nutrition Labelling System in Supermarkets: Evidence to Inform Policy and Practice. 
  • Correction of misleading information in prescription drug television advertising: The roles of advertisement similarity and time delay. 
  • Deployment of health information kiosks in diverse community settings: experience and lessons learned. 
  • Disease understanding in patients newly diagnosed with atrial fibrillation. 
  • Do diabetic veterans use the Internet? Self-reported usage, skills, and interest in using My HealtheVet Web portal. 
  • Extending Our Reach for Greater Impact. 
  • Facilitating consumer clinical information seeking by maintaining referential context: evaluation of a prototypic approach. 
  • Factors associated with health information-seeking in low-income pregnant women. 
  • Healthcare.gov 3.0--behavioral economics and insurance exchanges. 
  • IAEA experience in communicating radiation risks through the RPOP website. 
  • Impact of direct-to-consumer predictive genomic testing on risk perception and worry among patients receiving routine care in a preventive health clinic. 
  • Implementation of a user-centered framework in the development of a web-based health information database and call center. 
  • Insurance plan presentation and decision support on HealthCare.gov and state-based web sites created for the Affordable Care Act. 
  • Making texts in electronic health records comprehensible to consumers: a prototype translator. 
  • Parental understanding of infant health information: health literacy, numeracy, and the Parental Health Literacy Activities Test (PHLAT). 
  • Perceived barriers and facilitators of using dietary modification for CKD prevention among African Americans of low socioeconomic status: a qualitative study. 
  • Preferred health resources and use of social media to obtain health and depression information by adolescent mothers. 
  • Presenting quantitative information about decision outcomes: a risk communication primer for patient decision aid developers. 
  • Providing calorie information on fast-food restaurant menu boards: consumer views. 
  • Radiation effects and risks: overview and a new risk perception index. 
  • Reproductive and family planning history, knowledge, and needs: a community survey of low-income women in Beijing, China. 
  • Sources of health information among rural women in Western Kentucky. 
  • The Quality of Health Information Available on the Internet for Patients With Pelvic Organ Prolapse. 
  • The Smart Choices front-of-package nutrition labeling program: rationale and development of the nutrition criteria. 
  • The potential influence of Internet-based social networking on the conduct of clinical research studies. 
  • We are the genes we've been waiting for: rational responses to the gathering storm of personal genomics. 
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  • Yancy Jr., William Samuel, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine