What is Health Literacy

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The ability to access pertinent health related information and use it successfully to promote one’s own health or the health of others one may be responsible for. Learn more in: The Rural Learning Challenge: Meeting the Health Needs of Rural Residents through ICTs

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To be able to get the right information about health from the right channels. Learn more in: Health Communication Concerning the Novel Coronavirus Pandemic

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Health literacy can be defined as the mental and social skills necessary for individuals to access health-related information, understand it, and use it in their health-related decisions. Learn more in: A Systematic Analysis of Current Studies (2021) in the Field of Cyberchondria

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It is the basic and extensive knowledge acquired by an individual on matters relating to healthy behaviours, making positive health choices and engendering healthy living. Learn more in: Exploring the Use of Indigenous Languages in Antenatal Care Sessions Among Mothers in Lagos State

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The ability to perform basic reading and numerical tasks required to function in the health care environment . . . to read, understand, and act on health care information. Learn more in: Information Literacy and Science Misinformation

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Signifies seeking appropriate information for health, being able to get access information to this information, understanding and implementing this information to daily life. Learn more in: Are Adult Women or Men Who Use the Internet as a Health Information Resource More Health Literate?

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Degree of capacity of individuals to access, process and understand basic health information in order to make the right decisions about their health. Learn more in: A Study Determining the Health Literacy Levels of Young Adults During COVID-19

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The capability to find, process and comprehend health information to make the appropriate decisions and to choose health services and resources accordingly. Learn more in: The Contribution of Technologies to Promote Healthy Aging and Prevent Frailty in Elderly People

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Is the capacity to which individuals have to obtain, process, and understand health information that is needed to make appropriate health decisions. Learn more in: Learning to Live with Chronic Disease: Coronary Artery Disease

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The ability to access, comprehend, evaluate, and apply health information. Learn more in: Technology Impact on New Adult Behavior about Health Information

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“The degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions” (IOM, 2004, p. 32). Learn more in: Health Literacy: An Essential Ingredient for Better Health Outcomes – Overview of Health Literacy Theoretical Concepts

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The level of capacity required to understand, obtain and process health information and services in order for individuals to make effective and appropriate decisions regarding health. Learn more in: Active and Healthy Aging: Satisfaction with Health Services by Elderly Patients in Turkey

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It is the ability to have enough health information to make the most appropriate decisions about an individual's health, to read, understand and use health information. Learn more in: Health Literacy and Cyberchondria

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Health literacy refers to the knowledge and capabilities of patients to accomplish specific tasks to improve personal health status according to the indications of the personal physician. Learn more in: Empowering Patients Through Digital Technologies: The Case of Mobile Health Applications

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Set of skills focused on how an individual is able to gather, process, and understand information necessary for making health care decisions. Learn more in: An Instructional Strategy to Facilitate Pre-Professional Training in Removing Language Access Barriers: Simulated Interpreter Encounter

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Health literacy is the ability of the people to acquire, read and understand basic healthcare information such as prescription, x-ray and blood tests results, in order to make health related informed decisions for managing and improving one’s health and wellbeing. Learn more in: My Digital Healthcare Record: Innovation, Challenge, and Patient Empowerment

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Has been identified as a public health goal for the 21st century and a significant challenge facing health care globally. Learn more in: Including Elderly Patients in Decision Making via Electronic Health Literacy

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The knowledge and skills needed to be able to access, understand and apply health-related information in order to manage one’s health and wellbeing. Learn more in: Gamification to Improve Adherence to Clinical Treatment Advice: Improving Adherence to Clinical Treatment

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A degree where individuals have the ability to obtain, process, and understand basic health information needed to make appropriate health decisions. Learn more in: ¿Que Estoy Loca? –– Crazy?

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It is the development of awareness for reading and understanding the news on health issues in the media. Learn more in: Being Autistic in Turkey and the Representation of Autism in Media

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The degree to which an individual has the capacity to obtain, communicate, process, and understand basic health information and services to make appropriate health decisions. Learn more in: Social Innovation to Achieve Global Health

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The level of understanding of health-related information and making informed health decisions. Learn more in: Information: Too Much or Too Soon?

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This is the degree to which an individual has the capacity to obtain, communicate, process, and understand basic health information and services in order to make appropriate health decisions. Learn more in: Indigenous Language Media and Communication for Health Purposes in the Digital Age

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Ability to obtain, read, understand, and use healthcare information in order to make healthcare decisions. Learn more in: Digital Storytelling and Teachers' Disciplinary Multiliteracies

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Personal characteristics and social resources needed by an individual to access, evaluate, and use health-related information. Learn more in: Using Technology to Empower People With Multiple Sclerosis (MS) to Make Shared Decisions About Managing Their Own Healthcare: A UK Case Study

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The World Health Organization defines health literacy as “the cognitive and social skills which determine the motivation and ability of individuals to access, understand, and use information to promote and maintain good health” (World Health Organization, 1998, p.20). Since then, the Institute of Medicine has expanded the definition to include the skills necessary to making “appropriate health decisions” ( Neter and Brainin, 2019 ). Learn more in: Common-Sense Epidemiology in the Age of Electronic Patient Records (EPR)

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How people obtain, understand, use, and communicate about health information to make informed decisions ad follow instructions for treatment. Learn more in: Promises and Challenges of Medical Patient Healthcare Portals in Underserved Communities: The Case of Einstein Medical Center Philadelphia (EMCP)

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The ability of an individual to obtain, read, understand and to communicate basic health information in a manner that appropriate health decisions can be made and good health is both maintained and promoted. Learn more in: The Role of E-Health Interventions in Improving Clinical Outcomes and Overall Health for Prostate Cancer Patients: A Review

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It can be defined as a patient’s understanding and interpretation of medical information and acting accordingly. Learn more in: The Relationship Between Digital Literacy and Cyberchondria

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It is the ability of an individual to reach, understand and use health information for the protection and maintenance of health. Learn more in: Social Media and Health Communication

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Health literacy is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as the “cognitive and social skills that determine the motivation and ability of individuals to gain access to, understand and use information in ways that promote and maintain good health (Martenson and Hensing 2012 AU448: The in-text citation "Martenson and Hensing 2012" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. : 151; see also WHO 1998) There are, according to Nutebeam (2000) AU449: The in-text citation "Nutebeam (2000)" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. , three levels of health literacy: the basic one, functional health literacy, that is centered on factual information; the intermediate level or interactive health literacy that is centered on the development of individual skills and its direct context; and, finally, the critical health literacy that relate the individual to the community and public policies as well as the behavioral change of a population in its global context, not just the direct or obvious one. Learn more in: Management of Tacit Knowledge and the Issue of Empowerment of Patients and Stakeholders in the Health Care Sector

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The ability to obtain, process, and then act appropriately on health information. Learn more in: Planning Successful Telemedicine and E-Health Systems

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It refers to the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions. Learn more in: Can Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Improve Gamified Healthcare Services and Devices?

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The ability to utilize health information and knowledge to inform health related decisions. Learn more in: The Power of Collaborative Inquiry and Metaphor in Meeting the Health Literacy Needs of Rural Immigrant Women: A Case of Parent Education

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Health literacy is the capacity of an individual to obtain, interpret, and understand basic health information and services and the competence to use such information and services in ways that are health-enhancing (refer to text box 1 AU15: No box matches the in-text citation "box 1". Please supply a box or delete the citation. ). Learn more in: Web Access by Older Adult Users