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Agrability Quarterly
Promoting Success in Agriculture for People with Disabilities and Their Families
Fall 2005, Vol. 6, No. 1
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References

  1. Partnership for Clear Health Communications. 2005. What is health literacy? Available at: http://www.askme3.org/PFCHC/what_is_health.asp. Accessed 17 August 2005.
  2. Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. 2004. Health literacy: A prescription to end confusion. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
  3. Kirsh, I., Juneblut, A., Jenkins, L., Kolstad, A. 1993. Adult literacy in America: A first look at the results of the National Adult Literacy Survey. Washington, DC: Department of Education National Center for Education Statistics.
  4. Nutbeam, D. (1999). Literacies across the lifespan: Health literacy. Literacy & Numeracy Studies, 9, 2: 47-55.
  5. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 2000. Healthy people 2010: Health communication. Available at: http://www.healthypeople.gov/. Accessed 1 September 2005.
  6. Baker, D.W., Parker, R.M., Williams, M.V. 1997. The relationship of patient readings ability and self-reported health and use of health services. American Journal of Public Health, 87: 1027-1030.
  7. Davis, T.C., Meldrum, H., Tippy, P.K.P. 1996. How poor literacy leads to poor health care. Patient Care: 94-108.
  8. American Medical Association. 1999. Health literacy: Report of the council on scientific affairs. Journal of the American MedicalAssociation, 281: 552-557.
  9. Center for Health Care Strategies. 2000. CHCS fact sheets. Facts about health literacy: Low health literacy skills increase annual health care expenditures by $73 billion. Princeton, NJ: Center for Health care Strategies, Inc.
  10. United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service. 2004. Rural labor and education. Available at: http://www.ers.usda.gov/Briefing/. Accessed 22 September 2005.
  11. United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service. 2004. Farm Labor Available at: http://www.ers.usda.gov/Briefing/ . Accessed October 14, 2005.
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In This Issue
Section 1: Client Story
Section 2: Focus
Section 3: Assistive Technology Notes
Section 4: State Project Feature
Section 5: References
Section 6: Contacts