Consumer Law

Table of Contents for Summer 2009 Issue of Journal of Consumer Affairs: Special Issue on Consumer's Health Literacy

By Jeff Sovern

Here is the table of contents for the Journal of Consumer Affairs, Summer 2009, Volume 43, Number 2 Special Issue on Consumer?s Health Literacy:

Editorial Prelude: On Break-up Clichés Guiding Health Literacy?s Future by Paula Fitzgerald Bone, Karen Russo France and Kathryn J. Aikin

Health Literacy for Improved Health Outcomes: Effective Capital in the Marketplace by Natalie Ross Adkins and Canan Corus

Health Insurance Literacy of Older Adults by Lauren McCormack, Carla Bann, Jennifer Uhrig, Nancy Berkman, and Rima Rudd

The Roles of Gender and Motivation as Moderators of the Effects of Calorie and Nutrient Information Provisions on Away-from-Home-Foods by Kenneth Bates, Scot Burton, Elizabeth Howlett, and Kyle Huggins

Using the Thrifty Food Plan to Assess the Cost of a Nutritious Diet by Parke Wilde and Joseph Llobrera

Misguided Optimism Among College Student Smokers: Leveraging Their Quit Smoking Strategies for Smoking Cessation Campaigns by Joyce M. Wolburg

Bits, Briefs and Applications:
The Effectiveness of Cigarette Warning Label Threats on Non-Smoking Adolescents by Lalla Ilhame Sabbane, Tina M. Lowrey, and Jean-Charles Chebat

Complex Sample Design Effects and Health Insurance Variance Estimation by  Robert B. Nielsen, Michael Davern, Arthur Jones Jr. and John L. Boies

Notes and Observations:
The Impact of Consumers' Health Literacy on Public Health by Marian Levy and Marla B. Royne

Editorial Postlude
Health Information Consumers Can't or Don't Want to Use by Herbert Jack Rotfeld

Full post as published by CL&P Blog on June 05, 2009 (boomark / email).