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Almost half of American adults lack sufficient literary skills, including reading ability, to take full advantage of the most useful medical technologies such as Pap smears and mammograms

USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education),  August, 2004  

> Almost half of American adults lack sufficient literary skills, including reading ability, to take full advantage of the most useful medical technologies such as Pap smears and mammograms. Most of those individuals also are less likely than others to get flu and pneumonia vaccines or receive other kinds of routine or specialized health care, indicates a study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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