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What is health literacy?
Health literacy refers to the knowledge you need so you can understand, and use information to make health decisions for yourself and your loved ones. Ask yourself, how much do you know about your health? How much do you know about healthy lifestyles? How does your knowledge affects your decisions, you habits, your health?
The facts...
Nine out of 10 adults struggle to understand and use health information (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2021)According to the CDC, low health literacy has become a national public health issue. The costs of limited health literacy are reflected in monetary losses and high morbidity and mortality rate
Improved health literacy could:
Prevent nearly 1 million of hospital visits
Save over $25 billion a year
This is important because…
Knowledge allows people to:
- · Prevent harm or disease
- · Understand diagnoses
- · Decide on treatments
- · Evaluate risks to health
Do you think you have a say on your health every day?
Of course, you do!
When? Where?
- At your workplace
- At a doctor’s office, clinic, hospital
- At the playground
- At the grocery store
- At the drugstore
Let us help you to increase your knowledge on everyday topics that will change your life and that of your loved ones! The more you know the healthier your choices will be...Check out our blog, healthy links, videos and more!
Sources:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), (2021). CDC’s health literacy action plan. https://www.cdc.gov/healthliteracy/planact/cdcplan.html
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. (2010). National Action Plan to Improve Health Literacy. Washington, DC: Author. https://health.gov/sites/default/files/2019-09/Health_Literacy_Action_Plan.pdf