Health Literacy: Health Literacy and Numeracy

Health Literacy: How to actually reach your patients by Melissa Chen, MD

Health Literacy Includes

• Reading and writing skills

• Listening and verbal communication skills

• Numeracy / Computational skills

• Interpretation and evaluation of risk

• Appropriate visualization

Health Literacy is Two-Sided

  1.  A person's ability to understand and use information to make health-related decisions,

  and

  2.  The communicator's ability to present information in a way that fosters understanding and self-determination.

credit: The MRCT Center of Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard