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

The UAE ranks first globally in health outreach programmes, community participation in health policy, and wellbeing promotion ...

Health literacy is defined as an individual’s ability to understand and act on health-related information. While employees have shouldered more of the costs of their health care, ...

Health literacy actually falls on a spectrum; people don't just have "high" or "low" health literacy, and not every one of us can perform every health task.

Health literacy can also include the ability to work with health providers to maintain health. In this context, it means being able to describe one’s situation and preferences.

Impact of COVID-19 on health literacy. COVID-19 has prompted an interest in microbiology, immunology, epidemiology, and public health never seen on this scale before.

Currently, nearly 300 million Americans score below proficient in health literacy and this crucial shortcoming is pervasive among the entire continuum of age, race, vulnerability and income. And ...

Health literacy, the ability to understand and use health information to make health-related decisions, is consistently linked to poor health outcomes.People with low health literacy have higher ...

October is Health Literacy Month. Alexandra Watson, M.D. ’17, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine fourth-year family medicine resident, wants to bring attention to the importance of making ...

Health literacy is a straightforward aspect of health care with an enormous potential impact on your employees' lives and the economics of running your business. As Americans emerge from the COVID ...

Health literacy affects us all and improving it is a responsibility that we all share. Mary Nketia lives in Storrs. The opinions expressed by contributors are theirs alone.

People with poor health literacy may have problems communicating with their physician, reading instructions and labels on medicines, completing medical and insurance forms and understanding many ...