Understanding options which may lead to a healthier lifestyle and acting upon these is enhanced through being health literate ...

Menstrual health education is about more than just biology; it’s about creating empowerment, equality, and respect for women ...

In a time when much of the media’s focus is on the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the differences in vaccination rates between various regions, countries, and socioeconomic groups, improving ...

Health literacy has been linked to positive health behaviors. Filling in some of the gaps can make it even more effective.

Improving health literacy – defined as a person’s ability to find, understand and use information and services to make health-related decisions for themselves and others – continues to be an important ...

Significant gaps in arthritis subtype awareness among US adults underscore the need for improved health literacy and more ...

As October moves on and we move deeper into the fall, let’s take stock of our understanding of health literacy. October has been designated as health literacy awareness month — a time to ...

Digital health literacy is a critical yet overlooked component in today’s shifting healthcare ecosystem – and there is something we can all do about it!

We adapted the US government’s climate literacy principles to propose a definition and corresponding set of elements for a concept we term climate and health literacy.

Every day, low health literacy results in patients’ misunderstanding the instructions of their clinicians, sometimes with very serious consequences.