Health Literacy Research and Practice (Aug 2019)

Is Further Research on the Newest Vital Sign in Children Necessary?

  • Marin P. Allen,
  • Elaine Auld

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3928/24748307-20190705-01
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 3
pp. e194 – e194

Abstract

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We want to acknowledge the important contributions made by Dr. Barry D. Weiss to the field of health literacy and the development of the Newest Vital Sign (NVS) health literacy assessment (Weiss et al., 2005). However, we are writing to disagree with his suggestion for readers that further NVS research in children or working to improve youth health literacy is of limited value (Weiss, 2019).

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