of health literacy, in part because health literacy involves both the context (or setting) in which health literacy demands are made (e.g., health care...

Mental health literacy has been defined as "knowledge and beliefs about mental disorders which aid their recognition, management and prevention. Mental...

Literacy is the ability to read and write. Some researchers suggest that the study of "literacy" as a concept can be divided into two periods: the period...

(lack of ability to communicate with health care providers, poor health literacy, low income). Limitations to health care services affect negatively the...

Health (OSH) literacy is the degree to which individuals have the functional capacity to access, process and use the occupational safety and health (OSH)...

behaviors, financial literacy, and career decisions. Therefore, innumeracy may negatively affect economic choices, financial outcomes, health outcomes, and life...

Information and media literacy (IML) enables people to show and make informed judgments as users of information and media, as well as to become skillful...

to meet patients at their level of health literacy. As defined by the Institute of Medicine's report, health literacy is "the degree to which individuals...

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to improve health literacy, including improving knowledge, and developing life skills which are conducive to individual and community health." It is often...

related the lack of health literacy among most of self-trackers. The European Health Literacy Survey Consortium Health defines health literacy as "[...] people's...

The Asian Health Literacy Association (AHLA; Chinese: 亞洲健康識能學會) is an association which aims to provide an overview of the health literacy status in Asia...

The most recent comprehensive data on adult literacy in the United States come from the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies...

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The purpose of disseminating health information is to influence personal health choices by improving health literacy. Health communication is a unique niche...

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disparities in healthcare, and socioeconomic challenges that lead to lower health literacy and median life expectancy, and per capita income. Initially, only...

significance of health literacy and the system's failure to provide an equal opportunity of education for everyone. Health literacy can be described...

education and health promotion. Health education refers to structured learning activities aimed at improving health literacy, while health promotion encompasses...

to connect to low health literacy LHL groups could be a way to increase health literacy. It is critically important for the health of populations that...

Media literacy is an expanded conceptualization of literacy that includes the ability to access and analyze media messages, as well as create, reflect...

(e.g., computer literacy, ecological literacy, health literacy, media literacy, quantitative literacy (numeracy) and visual literacy). In order to understand...

Health literacy offers skills to allow users to spot/avoid such content. Efforts by governments and public health organizations to advance health literacy...

population also has lower rates of health literacy. A 2016 study found that over 60% of patients had inadequate health literacy in a sample of formerly incarcerated...

Scientific literacy or science literacy encompasses written, numerical, and digital literacy as they pertain to understanding science, its methodology...

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parents' decision-making regarding cough and cold medications: role of health literacy". Academic Pediatrics. 13 (3): 229–35. doi:10.1016/j.acap.2013.01.004...

Literacy in India is a key for social-economic progress. The 2011 census, indicated a 2001–2011 literacy growth of 97.2%, which is slower than the growth...

resources to the health domain in the form of eHealth literacy can also create new gaps between health consumers. eHealth literacy hinges not on the...

proficient health literacy, 44% have intermediate literacy, 29 percent have basic literacy and 14 percent have below basic health literacy. The study...