Health insurance literacy in community health center staff

• Published in: Journal of public health Vol. 29; no. 6; pp. 1261 - 1265
• Main Authors: Williams, Cory B., Pensa, Mellisa A., Olson, Douglas P.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.12.2021; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Epidemiology; Health care; Health care facilities; Health insurance; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention; Health services; Indigent care; Insurance; Literacy; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Original Article; Patients; Public Health; Health insurance; Community health center; Health insurance literacy; Literacy; Consumer health information

Aim Community health center (CHC) staff play a key role in connecting vulnerable patients to health services. This study aims to gauge the health insurance literacy (HIL) of CHC staff and identify factors associated with HIL. Subjects and methods One hundred and fifty-two staff members from three he...