2024年10月16日 · Health Literacy can help us find, understand, and use health information to prevent health problems. When organizations share information with people that is too hard to understand, it creates a health literacy problem. Reviewing CDC resources can help you better develop your health literacy skills.

2024年10月16日 · Conduct an assessment to see what opportunities or barriers are present to address health literacy issues in your organization. Make sure to engage multiple partners and review the tools and resources below to get started.

2024年8月5日 · Health literacy is associated with age, gender, educational attainment, income and occupation, poverty, racial/ethnic minority status, literacy and language skills, health insurance coverage, and self-reported health.

2024年10月16日 · Different surveys measure people’s literacy, numeracy, and health literacy skills and their experiences with healthcare. You can use these studies for ideas about research and evaluation questions or as benchmarks for your own results.

People need health information and services they can easily find, understand, and use to get and stay healthy. Nearly 9 out of 10 adults have difficulty using everyday health information. All racial and ethnic groups. People of all ages. Even highly educated people. Health literacy can change. Health literacy is a state not a trait.

A bilingual, computer-adaptive test of health literacy will enable clinicians and researchers to more precisely determine at what level low health literacy begins to adversely affect health and health care use.

2009年9月30日 · This article provides guidance in regard to establishing an environment that promotes health literacy, assessing health literacy levels, utilizing strategies to increase health literacy, evaluating the learning that has occurred, and incorporating health literacy concepts into the nursing curriculum.

WHAT SKILLS SHOULD BE INCLUDED WHEN ASSESSING HEALTH LITERACY? Motivation? Cognitive skills? What are the important factors when measuring health literacy? How do existing measures compare with one another in terms of important factors? Do some measures assess a particular skill better than others?

2023年12月22日 · By assessing health literacy, healthcare professionals can identify individuals at risk, tailor interventions to meet their specific needs, and address health disparities. Health literacy assessment is a critical step in promoting health equity, improving patient outcomes, and fostering informed and empowered healthcare consumers.

We report on our use of a community health needs assessment model to describe county and state health literacy activities, gaps, assets, and opportunities.