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"More than 300 studies indicate that health-related materials far exceed the average reading ability of U.S. adults."

"90 million adults with limited health literacy cannot fully benefit from much that the health and health-care system have to offer."

"A two-year-old is diagnosed with an inner ear infection and prescribed an antibiotic. Her mother understands that her daughter should take the prescribed medication twice a day. After carefully studying the label on the bottle and deciding that it doesn't tell how to take the medicine, she fills a teaspoon and pours the antibiotic into her daughter's painful ear."

http://hospitals.unm.edu/health_literacy/pdfs/HealthLiteracy...