Health literacy
By R. Ferguson. Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives, 2013
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Health Literacy Health literacy is the ability to understand your health, medical care, and overall wellness. However, research shows that many adults find health information hard to understand. This includes what doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and other health care professionals say, written medical instructions, and health insurance forms. Even when people have good access to health services, lack of information can make it difficult for patients and families to properly manage their health. The September 14, 2011, issue of JAMA includes an article about health literacy in patients.
Subfields: Epidemiology, General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
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- Health Literacy and Adherence to Medical Treatment in Chronic and Acute Illness: A Meta-Analysis (2016, background): “For example, some conceptualized health literacy as the personal, cognitive, and social ability of individuals to access, understand, and use healthrelated information to promote and maintain good health [23].”
- Health Literacy and Health Information Technology Adoption: The Potential for a New Digital Divide (2016, background): “This stands to reason, given that health literacy is defined as how people obtain, understand, use, and communicate about health-related information [1].”
- Health literacy and public health: A systematic review and integration of definitions and models (2012, background): “literacy refers to the competences of people to meet the complex demands of health in modern society [2,3,62] the exact nature of these competences is still debated.”