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| Nancy D BerkmanSummaryAffiliation: RTI International Country: USA Publications
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Retiree health insurance: recent trends and tomorrow's prospectsLauren A McCormack
University of Wisconsin at Madison, USA
Health Care Financ Rev 23:17-34. 2002..The forces discouraging its growth--rising premium costs, a slower economy, judicial challenges, and an uncertain Medicare+Choice (M+C) program and policy agenda--far outweigh the forces likely to encourage expansion...
Health literacy: what is it?Nancy D Berkman
RTI International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709 2194, USA
J Health Commun 15:9-19. 2010..to this important issue suggests the need to review existing definitions of the term "health literacy," because despite the growing interest in this field, one question that persists is, "What is health literacy?"..- Low health literacy and health outcomes: an updated systematic reviewNancy D Berkman
Program on Health Care Quality and Outcomes, Division of Health Services and Social Policy Research, RTI International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709 2194, USA
Ann Intern Med 155:97-107. 2011..Approximately 80 million Americans have limited health literacy, which puts them at greater risk for poorer access to care and poorer health outcomes... - Access to treatment-related and support services in methadone treatment programsNancy D Berkman
Health Services and Social Policy Research, RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 2194, USA
J Subst Abuse Treat 32:97-104. 2007..Not-for-profit or public ownership of treatment sites was also found to be positively related to patient access... - Measuring beneficiary knowledge of the Medicare program: a psychometric analysisCarla M Bann
RTI, Statistics Research Division, PO Box 12194, Research Triangle, Park, NC 27709 2194
Health Care Financ Rev 24:111-25. 2003..Overall, based on both content considerations and the psychometric analyses, the true/false quiz proved to be the more accurate and useful measure of beneficiaries' knowledge... - The Health Literacy Skills Instrument: a 10-item short formCarla M Bann
RTI International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA
J Health Commun 17:191-202. 2012..The HLSI-SF offers researchers and practitioners a valid and reliable measure of health literacy skills... - Outcomes of eating disorders: a systematic review of the literatureNancy D Berkman
RTI International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA
Int J Eat Disord 40:293-309. 2007.... 
Literacy and health outcomes: a systematic review of the literatureDarren A DeWalt
RTI International University of North Carolina Evidence based Practice Center, Research Triangle Park, NC 27599, USA
J Gen Intern Med 19:1228-39. 2004..To review the relationship between literacy and health outcomes...- Measuring health literacy: a pilot study of a new skills-based instrumentLauren McCormack
RTI International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
J Health Commun 15:51-71. 2010..The overall instrument demonstrated good internal consistency, with a Cronbach's alpha of 0.86. Additional analyses are planned, with the goal of creating a short form of the instrument... - Initial feasibility of a woman-focused intervention for pregnant african-american womenHendree E Jones
Substance Abuse Treatment Evaluation and Intervention, RTI International, 3040 Cornwallis Road, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
Int J Pediatr 2011:389285. 2011..Future studies should examine the efficacy of the pregnancy-adapted Women's CoOp for women not enrolled in drug-abuse treatment...