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Personal 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.

Organizational health literacy is the degree to which organizations equitably enable individuals to find, understand, and use information and services to inform health-related decisions and actions for themselves and others.

Healthy People 2030 objectives related to health literacy:

• Increase the proportion of adults whose health care provider checked their understanding 
• Decrease the proportion of adults who report poor communication with their health care provider 
• Increase the proportion of adults whose health care providers involved them in decisions as much as they wanted 
• Increase the proportion of people who say their online medical record is easy to understand 
• Increase the proportion of adults with limited English proficiency who say their providers explain things clearly 
• Increase the health literacy of the population