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Health Literacy: Home

This guides defines health literacy and offers ways that health care professionals can assist patients with low health literacy.

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Definition of Health Literacy

Health Literacy is the degree to which individuals have the ability to:

"find, understand, and use information and services to inform health-related decisions and actions for themselves and others."
 

(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2021)

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