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Statistics related to Health Literacy at national and state levels.

• The Health of Kentucky: A County Assessment (2007)
  Kentucky Institute of Medicine
  http://www.kyiom.org/pdf/healthy2007a.pdf
  Accessed January 5, 2011

• The Health Literacy of America's Adults: Results from the 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy
  http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2006483
  Accessed January 5, 2011

• Highlights from the 2003 State Assessment of Adult Literacy
  http://www.kyae.ky.gov/NR/rdonlyres/F3FC23B7-4994-4FE5-88EC-A877A359C128/0/SAAL_KY.pdf
  Accessed January 5, 2011

• Low Health Literacy: Implications for National Health Policy (2007)
  National economic data
  http://www.npsf.org/askme3/pdfs/Case_Report_10_07.pdf
  Accessed January 5, 2011

• National Assessment of Health Literacy (NAAL 2003)
  http://nces.ed.gov/naal/health.asp
  Accessed January 5, 2011

• Pew Internet Report: The Social Life of Health Information (July 2009)
  http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2009/8-The-Social-Life-of-Health-Information.aspx
  Accessed January 5, 2011

• Robert Wood Johnson study on education levels and health disparities (2009)
  http://www.commissiononhealth.org/Resources.aspx
  Accessed January 5, 2011

• State and County Estimates of Low Literacy (2003)
  http://nces.ed.gov/NAAL/estimates/
  Accessed January 5, 2011