RT Book, Section
A1 Rudd, Rima E.
A1 Anderson, Jennie E.
A1 Oppenheimer, Sarah C.
A1 Rosenfeld, Lindsay E.
A1 Mandic, Carmen Gomez
A2 Wallace, Robert B.
SR Print(0)
ID 1141973285
T1 Health Literacy
T2 Maxcy-Rosenau-Last Public Health and Preventive Medicine, 15e
YR 2017
FD 2017
PB McGraw-Hill Medical
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071441988
LK accessbiomedicalscience.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1141973285
RD 2024/04/24
AB Health  literacy  has  been  used  as  a  metaphor  as  is  science  literacy  or  computer  literacy,  referring  to  knowledge  about  and  facility  with  a  particular  area  or  process.  However,  most  references  to  health  literacy  in  scholarly  articles  move  beyond  the  metaphor  and  highlight  the  importance  of  literacy  skills  applied  in  health  contexts.  Literacy  skills  encompass  a  set  of  related  activities  that  include  reading,  writing,  engaging  in  oral  exchange,  and  using  basic  math.  Adults  apply  these  skills  to  numerous  health-related  activities  at  home,  at  work,  in  the  community,  and  in  social  service  and  health  care  settings.  The  Institute  of  Medicine  (IOM)  report,  Health  Literacy:  A  Prescription  to  End  Confusion,  proposed  that  an  individual's  health  literacy  capacity  is  mediated  by  education,  and  its  adequacy  is  affected  by  culture,  language,  and  the  characteristics  of  health-related  settings.1