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Health Literacy Month |
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| October is Health Literacy Month. Health Literacy Month is a grass-roots campaign to promote understandable health communication. Over 90 million adults have limited ability to read and understand the instructions contained on prescriptions or medicine bottles, appointment slips, informed-consent documents, insurance forms, and health-education materials.
Health literacy is defined by the National Library of Medicine as “the degree to which people can obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services they need to make appropriate health decisions.” Health literacy is about the entire process of exchanging healthcare information — not just about reading and writing, but how people communicate about health through speaking and drawing pictures. |
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