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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. [ 1] There are multiple definitions of health literacy, [ 2] in part because health literacy involves both the context (or setting) in which health literacy demands are ...
Medicine portal. Society portal. v. t. e. Health education is a profession of educating people about health. [ 1] Areas within this profession encompass environmental health, physical health, social health, emotional health, intellectual health, and spiritual health, as well as sexual and reproductive health education. [ 2][ 3] It can also be ...
t. e. Functional illiteracy consists of reading and writing skills that are inadequate "to manage daily living and employment tasks that require reading skills beyond a basic level". [ 1] Those who read and write only in a language other than the predominant language of their environs may also be considered functionally illiterate. [ 2]
Health communication is the study and practice of communicating promotional health information, such as in public health campaigns, health education, and between doctor and patient. [ 1 ] The purpose of disseminating health information is to influence personal health choices by improving health literacy. Health communication is a unique niche ...
Particularly vulnerable groups include young workers, [9] older workers (aged over 45), [10] migrant workers, [11] persons with both visible and invisible disabilities, [12] people with low or no (illiterate) levels of literacy, [13] individuals who are speakers of English as a second language (English is the lingua-franca of OSH and the global ...
Numeracy has an influence on healthy behaviors, financial literacy, and career decisions. Therefore, innumeracy may negatively affect economic choices, financial outcomes, health outcomes, and life satisfaction. [ 3][ 4][ 5] It also may distort risk perception in health decisions. [ 6] Greater numeracy has been associated with reduced ...
Mental health literacy includes the ability to recognize specific disorders; knowing how to seek mental health information; knowledge of risk factors and causes, of self-treatments, and of professional help available; and attitudes that promote recognition and appropriate help-seeking". [1] The concept of mental health literacy was derived from ...
The study avoided a single standard of literacy, assessing individuals in three aspects of literacy with each aspect defined on a 500-point scale. Scores in each aspect (prose, document, and quantitative) were grouped in five levels: level 1 (0-225), level 2 (226-275), level 3 (276-325), level 4 (326-375), and level 5 (376-500).