Table 5.

Property Studies

Focus	Study	Measurement of Relevant Social Construct	Specific Health Literacy/Social Factor Intersection Finding
Community
	Cimasi et al., 2013	Population-level health literacy (by county)	Low community-level health literacy rates were associated with increased rates of preventable hospitalizations by county
	Sentell et al., 2014	Individual and community-level health literacy (from zip codes)	Both individual and community health literacy were separately, independently associated with self-reported health
Dyads
	Chisolm et al., 2015	Parent-teen dyads	Considered four categories by Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine-measured health literacy concordance: concordant high, parent high/teen low, parent low/teen high, and concordant low. Parent and teens were nonconcordant in more than 40% of dyads. Teens in parent high/teen low dyads reported lower competence with written material than concordant high dyads
	Garcia et al., 2013	Caregiver dyads	No strong association between health literacy levels within caregiving dyads for older Hispanic patients
	Levin et al., 2014	Caregiver dyads	29% of caregivers had inadequate health literacy as evaluated by the label-reading task, although all caregivers had adequate health literacy as assessed by the self-report measure