Health Literacy The Solid Facts

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Health literacy the solid facts. People with strong health literacy skills enjoy. Weak health literacy skills are associated with riskier behaviour poorer health less self management and more hospitalization and costs. Practical and effective ways public health and other sectoral authorities and advocates can take action to strengthen health literacy in a variety of settings are identified.

People with strong health literacy skills enjoy better health and well being while those with weaker skills tend to engage in riskier behaviour and have poorer health. Strengthening health literacy has been shown to build individual and community resilience help address health inequities and improve health and well being. Weak health literacy skills are associated with riskier behaviour poorer health less self management and more hospitalization and costs.

The solid facts health literacy. The who solid facts series was launched 15 years ago as an accessible source of intelligence on important and promising public health topics deemed worthy of more policy attention and action. Technical and scientific products.

Weak health literacy skills are associated with riskier behaviour poorer health less self management and more hospitalization and costs. The who solid facts report addresses various aspects of health literacy. Practical and effective ways public health and other sectoral authorities and advocates can take action to strengthen health literacy in a variety of settings are identified.

First it aims to distil the best available evidence on these topics based on often complex scientific stud ies and reviews. As societies grow more complex and people are increasingly bombarded with health information and misinformation health literacy becomes essential. It has two purposes.

On one hand it discusses the background and causes of health literacy on the other it analyses the impacts and recommends plans of action and delivers examples of successful projects such as that of the netherlands health literacy alliance. Peoplewith strong health literacy skills enjoybetter health and well being while thosewith weaker skills tend to engage in riskierbehaviour and have poorer health. The data from the european health literacy survey show that nearly half the europeans surveyed have inadequate or problematic health literacy.