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Publications

Publications

Selected publications

Rudd RE, Comings JP, and Hyde J. Leave no one behind: Improving health and risk communication through attention to literacy.  Journal of Health Communication, 8 (Suppl 1):104-115. 2003.

Rudd RE. Health literacy skills of U.S. adults. Journal of Health Behavior. 31(Supp 1): S8-S18. 2007.

Apter AJ, Paasche-Orlow MK, Remillard JT, Bennett IM, Ben-Joseph EP, Batista RM, Hyde J, Rudd RE. Numeracy and communication with patients: They are counting on us. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 23(12):2117.  2008.

McCormack L, Bann C, Uhrig J, Berkman N, Rudd RE.  Health insurance literacy of older adults. Journal of Consumer Affairs, 2009.

Rudd RE, Gall V, Blanch D., Chinik LB, Wrigh, EA, Reichmann W, Liang MH, Katz JN.  A Randomized controlled trial of an intervention to reduce low literacy barriers in inflammatory arthritis management. Patient Education and Counseling, 75:334-39.  2009.

Rudd RE & Keller DB.[2009]. Health Literacy: New developments and research. Journal of Communication in Healthcare, 2(3): 240-257.   

Sanders LM, Shaw JS, Guez G, Baur C, Rudd RE [2009]. Health Literacy and Child Health Promotion: Implications for Research, Clinical Care, and Public Policy. Pediatrics, 124, Supplement 3: S275-281

Selected Reports

Rudd, RE. [2003]. Health Literacy Action Plan, in Communicating Health. Office of the Surgeon General, Washington DC: HHS. 2003.

Rudd, Kirsch, Yamamoto [2004]. Literacy and Health In America. Princeton NJ: Educational Testing Services.

Committee on Health Literacy [2004].Health Literacy: a prescription to end confusion. Rudd, writer/contributor and committee member. Institute of Medicine. Washington DC: National Academies of Science.

Committee on Performance Levels for Adult Literacy [2005].   Measuring literacy: Performance levels for adults. Rudd, writer/contributor and committee member. National Research Council. Washington DC: National Academies of Science.

 

Selected Book Chapters

 

Rudd RE, Comfort L, Mongillo J, Zani L. [1994]. Student Produced Health Education Materials, chapter in Matiella (ed), Comprehensive Health Education in the Multiethnic Classroom, Santa Cruz, CA: ETR Associates.

Rudd RE, Moeykens BA, Colton T. [1999]. Health and Literacy: A review of the medical and public health literature, chapter 5 in Comings JP, Smith C, Garner B (eds), Annual Review of Adult Learning and Literacy. San Francisco CA: Josey-Bass. 

Rudd, RE, Rezulli D, Perreira A, Daltroy LD [2004]. The Patient Health Experience, chapter 5 in Schwartzberg JG, VanGeest JB, Want CC, Gazmararian JA, Parker RM, Roter DL, Rudd RE, Schillinger D.   (editors). Understanding Health Literacy: Implications for Medicine and Public Health. Chicago ILL: AMA Press.

Rudd, RE, Anderson JE, Oppenheimer S, Nath C. [2007]. Health Literacy: An Update of Public Health and Medical Literature, chapter 6 in Comings JP, Garner B., Smith C. (eds), Review of Adult Learning and Literacy, volume 7.  Mahway NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, pp 175-204.