2023
DOI: 10.1093/eurjcn/zvad085
|View full text |Cite
|
Sign up to set email alerts
|

Health literacy, numeracy, graph literacy, and digital literacy: an overview of definitions, evaluation methods, and best practices

Meghan Reading Turchioe,
Sabrina Mangal

Abstract: Health literacy is an important skill for people receiving care. Those with limited literacy face disparities in their care and health outcomes when strategies for addressing literacy are not used when delivering health information. In this article, we introduce the importance of considering health literacy, defining it and related concepts including numeracy, graph literacy, and digital literacy, and discuss open questions about measuring health literacy in clinical care. Finally, we present best practices, i… Show more

Help me understand this report

Search citation statements

Order By: Relevance

Paper Sections

Select...

Citation Types

0
0
0

Year Published

2023
2023
2024
2024

Publication Types

Select...
1
1

Relationship

0
2

Authors

Journals

citations
Cited by 2 publications
references
References 27 publications
0
0
0
Order By: Relevance