New Study: CDC, White House Fail to
Meet Health Literacy Guidelines
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Post: 8.19.2020 by Mary Anne R.
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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the White
House, and the state health departments have failed to meet the health literacy
guidelines when it comes to passing COVID-19 information to the public.
This was according to the new
study done by Darthmouth College researchers, which was released on
Tuesday.
The CDC, the American Medical Association, and the National
Institutes of Health all said that medical information for the public should be
written at no more than eight-grade reading level.
But researchers found that public information released about
COVID-19 have an average of over 11th-grader reading level.
They found the result after looking at 137 federal web pages.
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States are not required to follow the said guidelines. But experts
said that it is needed for everyone to understand the given health information.
The 2003 National
Assessment of Adult Literacy found that only 12 percent of American adults
show proficient health literacy.
The study also showed that all 50 U.S. states have given health
information above the recommended eight-grade reading level.
Nine of the 10 states with the highest illiteracy rates have
written the said health information in above 10th grade level.
Dexter said that the differences between eight-grade and
11th-grade reading level are crucial.
Dexter explained that text written at a higher grade level can
cause people to miss the most important information. READ
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Based on 7 readability formulas:
Grade
Level: 11
Reading
Level: difficult to read.
Reader's
Age: 15-17 yrs. old
(Tenth
to Eleventh graders)
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