Health Literacy in 2025 Health literacy is a hot topic in global health. Nichole Davies, Chief Strategy Officer at VML Health, discusses why this "silent killer" demands our attention. Read More In The Press VML Health's Claire Gillis on Humanising Healthcare ...
Conclusions: Findings suggest that health literacy was associated with improved mental well-being among US college students, which has implications for health programming at US universities, such as the coordination of physical and mental healthcare.Lauren Beasley...
BEIJING, April 24 (Xinhua) -- China's health literacy has steadily risen and reached 29.7 percent in 2023, up 1.92 percentage points from the previous year, according to the National Health Commission (NHC) on Wednesday. A NHC survey revealed that the health literacy among Chinese urban ...
Health literacy, together with language and culture, is fundamental to the success of health communication. In the United States, health literacy began to emerge as a field in the early 1990s when the US Department of Education released the National Adult Literacy Survey (NALS) showing that over...
Health care organizations recognize the importance of improving health literacy, as it allows for health care professionals to communicate information with their patients in a timely and effective manner. One of the ultimate goals, according to the Health Resources and Services Administration, ...
REALM, well-known and widely used health literacy tool in the US, was translated and modified for cultural considerations. The Korean modified version of the REALM was administrated to the targeted subjects who were asked to fill the survey questionnaires. Results: The findings appear to be ...
Nearly half of all American adults, 90 million people, have difficulty understanding and using health information, and there is a higher rate of hospitalization and use of emergency services among patients with limited health literacy. Limited health literacy may lead to billions of dollars in avoida...
Health Literacy I. Kickbusch, D. Maag, in International Encyclopedia of Public Health, 2008 Health Literacy in Sickness and Health Health literacy skills are needed in sickness and in health. The Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion (WHO, 1986) states that health is created in the context of ...
Health literacy is an increasingly important topic in both the policy and research agendas of many countries. During the recent 36th Annual Meeting of the North American Primary Care Research Group, the authors led an audio-taped 3-hour forum, "Studying
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