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Use Of E-Health To Improve Health Literacy And Decrease Health Disparities Among Diabetic African Americans, M Moussa, D Sherrod, Jeungok Choi

Jeungok Choi

African Americans in the United States suffer disproportionately from diabetes. Research has linked this disparity to poor health literacy, which has been shown to improve through the implementation of e-health intervention strategies. This article reviews intervention studies exploring the potential to enhance the health literacy of African Americans who have diabetes. A search of electronic databases covering related health topics for the years 1990 to 2010 yielded 54 articles, 35 of which met the inclusion criteria for review. These articles suggest that low health literacy is a major contributor to African American diabetes and indicate the lack of available patient-centered …