health literacy
English
Etymology
Introduced in a 1975 paper by Scott K. Simonds, Professor of Health Education at the University of Michigan.[1]
Noun
- Agility in obtaining, evaluating, and applying health information.
Derived terms
- health-literate
- mental health literacy
Translations
agility to find, assess and apply health information
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See also
- data literacy
- food literacy
- sexual literacy
- scientific literacy
- physical literacy
References
- Simonds, Scott K. (1974) “Health education as social policy”, in Health Education & Behavior, volume 2, , page 9 of 1–10
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