Health literacy is the degree to which people can obtain, understand, evaluate and use health information to make decisions about their care. Clinical communication increasingly treats it as a universal precaution, confirming understanding with every patient instead of only those presumed to be at risk.
- Entry typeKey concept
- Category of its source unitIntervention Methods & Practices
- DomainMeaning & Clarity
What these mean
Editorial orientation · Entry type
Key concept
Key concepts are the working vocabulary of the field: the terms that the models and tools rely on and that a decision about communication has to use precisely. Each entry defines the term and sends you to the brief or the self-guided audit where it is put to work.
Editorial orientation · Category
Intervention Methods & Practices
Organizes actions intended to facilitate, plan, train, negotiate, coordinate or change a situation. It connects a practical purpose with a way of working, whose conditions and consequences must be examined.