Health Literacy


The US Department of Health and Human Services defines health literacy as the “degree to which an individual has the capacity to obtain, communicate, process, and understand basic health information and services to make appropriate health decisions”.

Post a no less than 400 words reflection discussion about what you learned related to health literacy.  Use the content from the CDC tutorial and from the readings.

1) Discuss what measure you can take to address health literacy in your everyday work.

2) How does health literacy relate to the course learning outcomes?

You must include citations and references to support your position.