Personal health literacy is the degree to which individuals have the ability to find, understand, and use information and services to inform health-related decisions and actions for themselves and others.
Organizational health literacy is the degree to which organizations equitably enable individuals to find, understand, and use information and services to inform health-related decisions and actions for themselves and others. (CDC)
Physicians have long pledged to adhere to four basic moral principles, a concise framework for the larger field of medical ethics. As is commonly known, those values consist of autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice...
Health Literacy in Nursing promotes verbal and written communication strategies that nurses can use to effectively meet the individualized needs of an increasingly diverse...
Approximately one-half of American adults exhibit low health literacy and thus struggle to find and use health information. Low health literacy is associated with negative outcomes including overall poorer health...
Millions of consumers get health information from magazines, TV or the Internet. Some of the information is reliable and up to date; some is not. How can you tell the good from the bad?
From the About page: We are graduate students, librarians and researchers who have been studying real-life outcomes of online health information for a decade. We also regularly search ...
Virtual health care was adopted more widely during the COVID-19 pandemic, with many people accessing health-care providers remotely. However, easy and convenient access to technology means some people may choose to bypass health care and consult Dr. Google directly,...
A study of 5,000 Americans by Harvard Medical School researchers found that searching symptoms online modestly boosted patients' ability to accurately diagnose health issues without increasing their anxiety or misleading them to seek care inappropriately. Participants reviewed clinical cases and ...
During 2005-2013, the award-winning website HealthNewsReview.org offered reviews of major media outlets' news stories related to health interventions, including tests, treatments, dietary changes, and prescription drugs...
Using health literacy best practices can build trust and advance health equity. Trust is an important part of a person’s willingness to engage in care and behaviors that promote health
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