Health Care
Health Care
Boston University’s Health Literacy Tool Shed is an online database of health literacy measures. The site contains information about measures, including their psychometric properties, based on a review of the peer-reviewed literature. In developing the Tool Shed, gaps were found within some health literacy measures. It is suggested future researchers close these gaps by:
- Aligning health literacy measurement with theory and conceptual models
- Developing methods of objective measurement that approximate the convenience of self-report measures
- Conducting comparative assessment of self-reported and objective measure
The Fentanyl Epidemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has been dominating the headlines over the last couple of years, but the truth is that there’s an even deadlier epidemic in the United States: the fentanyl epidemic. The year 2021 saw 41,487 people between the ages of 18-45 die of fentanyl overdoses, while COVID-19 caused a little over half that number of fatalities in the same age group.