Health Literacy In Health Education

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Health literacy is a relatively new concept in healthcare promotion. The purpose of this essay is that it is used as a composite term to describe a range of outcomes of health education and communication activities. From this point of view, health education is directed towards improving health literacy. This essay explores the purpose of health education in health literacy, before examining in more depth the definition and effectiveness of the concept health literacy. This essay attempts to promote renewed attention to the role of health educators and communication in health literacy and encourages improvements in the sophistication of existing health education methodologies. Health literacy is an understanding in the skills and information …show more content…
The clinical care is a risk as poor literacy skills can misinterpret the patient’s condition and diagnosis. Having poor health literacy has not only affected the person’s involvement in the health care system, but also the decisions they will be making in their home, workplace and community. The levels of literacy impacts patients on performing tasks such as reading dosage levels and instructions of medication packages, or if people seek screening or diagnostic test instructions become hard to understand and from the practitioner instructions become difficult for them to demand upon. This is why medical funding increases for reasons such as interpreters need to be providing to help translate information from the practitioner to the patient. In comparison to those with adequate health literacy emergency room cost ($108; 95% CI: $62 to $154; P <0.0001) to those with inadequate health literacy, with a differences in total being ($1551; 95% CI: −$166 to $3267; P = 0.08). Resulting in higher medical fees, people with low health literacy as mix services are required e.g., …show more content…
Improving health literacy can be as basic as everyday reading to improve literacy skills, health directed novels, magazines and articles are highly recommended to boost literacy skills, things like library groups which can be organised by the local library to plan reading dates which will improve literacy. Taking English language Centre courses at Tafe NSW, they offer English classes, joining a class is available all year round. Duration of the course is 5-50 weeks and a minimum of 20 hours per week. This course is the start of improving health literacy to improve literacy skills to therefore progress to the health concept and understanding. The concept of health can be achieved with organizing a one-on-one appointment with a doctor or specialist to clarify your health and understanding of medications, conditions and health status in general. The health professions have a major role in helping achieve a person’s health literacy, this is due to their communication and interactions, it reflects on confirming the patient has understood then re-clarified their instructions on medication, dieting etc. If communication is

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