Health literacy
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health-literacy-182-6894979
title:
Health literacy
text:
Health literacy is the ability to obtain, read, understand, and use healthcare information in order to make appropriate health decisions and follow instructions for treatment. There are multiple definitions of health literacy, in part because health literacy involves both the context in which health literacy demands are made and the skills that people bring to that situation. Since health literacy is a primary contributing factor to health disparities, it is a continued and increasing concern fo
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Ability to understand healthcare information
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_literacy
date created:
2006-07-31T15:03:41Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T08:32:49Z
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13
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