1. Which groups in the US population are most likely to have poor health literacy? Why might they have poor health literacy?
2. Discuss at least 3 possible outcomes of poor health literacy.
3. Identify at least 3 things that can be done on patient education materials to help individuals with poor health literacy.
4. How would you evaluate your level of health literacy? How did you reach this conclusion?
1,In United states the adults who aged 70 or older had the lower average health litracy .The adults aged 20-40 had higher higher average health literacy.
2, Decreased use of preventive health services,incresed rate of morbidity and mortality, poor disease disease specific outcome from the diseases.
3,Identify the patients with low health litracy
make sure to use plain language
Arrange health plays to educate the peoples
Student nurses should do the community duties and give health education to the oldages
4, communicate the patient with their present condions by the patient response we can assess the helth literacy of the patinet,
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