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Vardell, Emily Johanna.

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Health Insurance Literacy: How People Understand and Make Health Insurance Purchase Decisions.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Health Insurance Literacy: How People Understand and Make Health Insurance Purchase Decisions./
Author:	Vardell, Emily Johanna.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2017,
Description:	236 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-01(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-01A(E).
Subject:	Information science. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10283966
ISBN:	9780355178876

Health Insurance Literacy: How People Understand and Make Health Insurance Purchase Decisions.
Vardell, Emily Johanna.

Health Insurance Literacy: How People Understand and Make Health Insurance Purchase Decisions. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017 - 236 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-01(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2017.

The concept of health insurance literacy, which can be defined as "the extent to which consumers can make informed purchase and use decisions" (Kim, Braun, & Williams, 2013, p. 3), has only recently become a focus of health literacy research. Though employees have been making health insurance decisions for many years, the Affordable Care Act has brought the issues of health insurance literacy to the spotlight. For the large number of adults with lower levels of health literacy, their ability to procure appropriate levels of health insurance coverage and interact with the health care system successfully may be limited. While a considerable amount of literature has focused on studying health literacy in general, the information seeking and decision-making process regarding health insurance has not been studied as thoroughly. If this process is studied in a sample group of users, their information needs and use might be better understood.

ISBN: 9780355178876Subjects--Topical Terms:

554358
Information science.

Health Insurance Literacy: How People Understand and Make Health Insurance Purchase Decisions.
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520 $a This qualitative study explores how individuals understand health insurance concepts and make health insurance purchase decisions. This study used semi-structured interview questions supplemented with a demographic questionnaire and the Health Insurance Literacy Measurement (HILM) developed by Paez et al. (2014). The study was conducted with newly hired employees at a large university in the southeastern United States.
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