Health Literacy
Health literacy tools for health communicators.
Research & Learning
What is Health Literacy?
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)
- Health Literacy in the United States: Enhancing Assessments and Reducing DisparitiesThe authors of this report identify three areas that they believe should be priorities in developing policies to address health literacy in the United States. The authors also offer seven recommendations for moving forward.
