Health literacy

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…

Health literacy is a complex topic difficult to address Health literacy was defined by the class lecture as “the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health care decisions (Healthy People, 2010). The features of health literacy include a wide range of skills and proficiencies that people develop throughout their lifetime. The title itself, Health literacy is composed of the noun literacy…

Introduction (200 words) Community health care is a broad and every expanding topic which underpins many social, political and economic decisions. For community nurses to provide optimal care to their clients an understanding of the health care principles is essential to how they will be provided within the nursing and community setting. This essay will discuss how knowledge and understanding effects health literacy and the underlying health principles that are relevant to a large Afghanistan…

Patient education is an important aspect of health-care that is often undervalued. Education however, entails both active engagement by the providing physician or health care team as well as the patient. Patient health literacy, often defined as the ability for a patient to obtain, understand, and act on health information, is a key factor for patient education and is often a limiting factor. [1] Evidence suggests that adults with limited health literacy are less likely, on average, to ask their…

optimal health Low health literacy is the inability to read, comprehend, and interpret health related data. The tendency to interpret symptoms without obtaining the medical diagnosis or exam may be related to low health literacy, which affects nearly 62% of Hispanics (Coffman, Norton, and Beene, 2011). Low health literacy is associated with inadequate diabetes knowledge, low glycemic control, and increase diabetes complications (Coffman, Norton, and Beene, 2011). The need for Spanish literacy…

Health literacy is defined as an individual’s ability to use cognitive, social and navigational skills to obtain, process and understand health information and services in order to make appropriate and beneficial health decisions (Lambert & Keogh, 2014; WHO, 2015). The concept of health literacy is a major determinant of a population’s health, meaning it is an important concept to grasp from an early age. Therefore, strategies on how to improve health literacy of the population will be discussed…

Health literacy is a topic that raises awareness to the population about their overall health and ensures that they are well informed about what is going on in their health. Health education is linked with health promotion because it increases the responsiveness of the public to different health news that is circulating around the world and increases their knowledge of health and the healthcare system; thereby making them responsible for their healthcare choices as well as supports the care that…

Health Literacy The role of health literacy is to help individuals to acquire skills to obtain, process, and understand the basic health information and services, which are needed in order to make appropriate health decisions (Wessling, 2010). In turn the necessity of health literacy provides a person with an improved quality of life, as well as, containing health costs for the U.S (Wessling, 2010). An article on the role of health literacy in reducing health disparities makes light of a…

Health literacy is the ability to understand spoken, written, and numerical information. This allows the patient to make informed decisions about their health care, making them feel empowered to take control of their health (Eadie, 2014). Approximately 90 million Americans suffer from low health literacy, according to The Institute of Medicine, as reported by Eadie (2014), which leads to higher healthcare costs and poor health management of patients with comorbidities because they are unable to…

Health literacy is a significant factor in patients’ health status and outcomes. The external factors of demographics, educational attainment, and health knowledge have not been thoroughly explored. The journal reviews the proposed model of health literacy as a combination of health knowledge, educational attainment and cognitive ability and tests its relation to measures of health literacy taking into account demographic variability. This was a quantitative study with 359 volunteer English and…