Health literacy of course correlates to health outcome. We really don't know individually what people's health literacy is, and that's so key in the relationship. That's why just last year we validated the REALM, rapid estimate of adult literacy in medicine, short form. There is a 10-second test to target what your health literacy is using the REALM short form. Then I can put you into four different categories for your health literacy and then target that. It is frustrating, though, to do it even for 10 seconds on a paper-based model. My 14-year-old son was sitting behind me and saw that I was frustrated and pulling my hair out and he said, “Why don't I just make an app for that, Dad?”
On April 30th, 2013. See this statement in context.