8.1 What is Health Literacy Flashcards
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Health Literacy
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- Degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information needed to make an appropriate health decision
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HP2020
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- Health literacy is essential to positive health outcomes
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SDOH
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- Health literacy is the key issue of healthcare and quality
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Health Literacy
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- Depends on communication skills of the person
- ## Depends on persons knowledge of health topics, culture, demands of healthcare system, public health system.
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Level 1 - Functional Health Literacy
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- Ability to read, write, and understand factual information about health risks
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Level 2 - Interactive Health Literacy
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- Optimize prevention and self-management
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Level 3 - Critical Health Literacy
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- Ability to analyze information and act at an individual and community level
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Importance of Health Literacy
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- Affects peoples ability to navigate the healthcare system
- Locate providers and services
- Fill out forms
- Share personal/health information with providers
- Enables self-care and chronic disease management
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Health Literacy HP 2030
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- Occurs when a society provides accurate health information and services that people can easily find, understand and use to inform their decisions and actions
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Low Health Literacy (what happens?)
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- Linked with higher healthcare costs, longer hospitalizations, delays in getting care, infrequent use of preventative care, higher levels of chronic disease
- Navigating fragmented healthcare is difficult
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Who does low health literacy affect the most
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- Older adults
- Poor
- Limited education
- Minority
- Not English proficient
- Immigrants
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Immigrants/Non-English Speaking
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- Language/Health Literacy barriers make it difficult for this population to gain adequate healthcare
- Higher risk for heart attack, cancer, diabetes, stroke, and HIV/AIDS
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Children
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- Health attitudes and habits formed during childhood have a direct impact on adult health habits
- Education needs to target the young
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At Risk Populations
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- Health education should be incorporated with cultural beliefs and values
- Visual presentations to reinforce statistic risk
- Primary language should be used
