Low Literacy
Low health and technology literacy can limit access to medical information, worsening health disparities. Poor health literacy reduces self-efficacy, increases stigma, and harms quality of life. Lack of tech access further hinders education, awareness, and health monitoring.
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Handouts in 30+ Languages
Help patients and communities better understand the basic details of these diseases with a series of downloadable PDF patient handouts on various movement disorder topics. Each has been translated into a variety of languages, with more being added regularly.
Free to print, share, and distribute.
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Selected research about disparities in health and technological literacy.
Health literacy:
- Relevance of Health Literacy to Precision Medicine: Proceedings of a Workshop
- Understanding patients' and caregivers' perspectives and educational needs in Parkinson's disease: a multi-ethnic Asian study**
Technological literacy:
- Know DBS: patient perceptions and knowledge of deep brain stimulation in Parkinson's disease
- Capturing Initial Understanding and Impressions of Surgical Therapy for Parkinson's Disease
- The Importance of Digital Health Literacy in an Evolving Parkinson's Disease Care System
* Article is free for MDS Members (No-fee membership available for residents of low-income countries and trainees) / ** Article access managed by an external organization
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 People called [my mother] a witch, and she was neglected. We thought it was contagious.”
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Low Socioeconomic Status can create a variety of barriers to education and information.
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Areas
- Lack of Resources
- Provider Shortages
- Environmental Exposure
- Geographic Barriers
- Dense Areas: Infection Spread
Populations
- Socioeconomic Status
- Gender / Sex / Orientation
- Race / Ethnicity
- Stigma
- Low Literacy
- Genetic Disparities
- Beliefs
- Rare and Understudied Diseases
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