Building healthier communities: the role of health educational programs in enhancing health literacy in Prairie View, Texas
Programs to increase health literacy within underserved communities can lead to improved medical knowledge competency, positive health outcomes, and informed decision making. Students exposed to the research were more willing to practice medicine in underserved communities.
Authors
- Marianne Hollis
- Joshua E Lewis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-4785-2011)
- Patrick Griffith (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7077-9695)
- Lornee C Pride
Institutions
- Prairie View A&M University (US)
- John Sealy Hospital (US)
- Southwestern Medical Center (US)
- Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté (FR)
- The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (US)
- The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Public Health
- Published
- 2025-02-05
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdae317
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Health Literacy and Information Accessibility
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.82