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This article discusses how younger adults, and students health behaviors can be effected by the media they watch. About 84 students were tested in this and also covered other subjects like its effect on eating disorders, behavior, and violence.

This article is about a study/experiment that was done with a group of adults that had visited a health clinic. The tested the performance of new vital signs, and if people were able to read them. This tested there literacy levels, and they had other ways of testing there literacy levels.

This article is about an experiment/ study that was conducted about health literacy and adolescents. The study was conducted in Australia. It tested the mental health literacy of adolescents and the effected that SMS messages had on them. The study did not have exact outcomes and more research has to be done in order to report exact information.

This article discusses the health information listed for different countries, this one focuses on Germany. It talks about how the websites are formed and how they are able to be accessed by others. It discusses the different objectives and methods that the website uses.

This article defines exactly what health literacy is, and goes through different background information. It talks about the NAAL, which has to do with adult literacy. It also discusses and goes through the NAAL survey that many adults have taken

This article discusses the importance of relaying information from doctors to patients. It states how important it is for the patients to actually understand the information they are being told. All people have different levels of literacy that doctors need to be made aware of.The article stressed the importance of doctors being clear and precise to there patients and not using 'doctor lingo'.

This article mainly discusses the way that poverty is effecting people. It focuses a lot on the undeveloped countries and the way people are living in poverty. It also explains different aspects of health literacy and gives background information about it. It also talks about how people living in poverty struggle with health literacy.

This article is about a study that was done with children and there parents. It tested the correlation between the chidren's BMI and the parents BMI. They looked at the children's lifestyle behavior and practices compared to the children weight status.