Health Education Flashcards
Described as someone who possessed socially required and expected reading and writing abilities, such as being able to sign his or her name and read and write a simple sentence.
Literate Person
Generally defined as the ability to read and speak English.
Literacy
They defined literacy as the ability to use printed and written information to function in society, to achieve one’s goals, to develop one’s knowledge and potential.
U.S Department of Education
NALS categorized literacy into three types of tasks:
Prose, Document, and Quantitative
The commonly accepted working definition of it is the ability to write and read, understand and interpret information written at eighth-grade level or above.
Literate
Being unable to read or write at all or having reading and writing skills at the fourth-grade level or below.
Illiterate
It is also termed marginally literate or marginally illiterate, refers to the ability of adults to read, write, and comprehend information between fifth- and eighth-grade levels of difficulty.
Low literacy
Adults lack the fundamental reading, writing and comprehension skills that are needed to perform the tasks of everyday life. They do not read well enough to understand and interpret what they have read or use the information as it was intended.
Adults lack the fundamental reading, writing and comprehension skills that are needed to perform the tasks of everyday life. They do not read well enough to understand and interpret what they have read or use the information as it was intended.
It is defined by Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, Title V, as the degree to which an individual has the capacity to obtain, communicate, process and understand basic health information and services to maje appropriate health decisions.
Health Literacy
Or word recognition as “the process of transforming letters into words and being
able to pronounce them correctly.
Reading
Defined as the ease with which written or printed information can be read.
Readability
The degree to which individuals understand what they have read.
Comprehension
An invisible handicap that affects all classes, ethnic groups, and ages.
Illiteracy
Research shows that the following populations have been identified as having poorer reading and comprehension skills than the average American
Older Adults, immigrants, those with English as a 2nd language, racial minorities, highschool dropouts, prisoners, unemployed, inner-city and rural residents, those with poor health status resulting from chronic mental and physical problems, those on medicaid
The two groups of researchers found that among the functionally illiterate the most common deficiencies found were:
Phonics, Comprehension, and Perception