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Health Literacy

Did you Know?

  • Health literacy is the ability to find, use, and understand health information correctly in order to make good health decisions.
  • According to the Institute of Medicine, nearly 90 million U.S. adults have poor health literacy
  • Health literacy costs the U.S. several hundred billion dollars each year!
  • Patients with poor health literacy have worse health outcomes and pay more for healthcare!

Learn how to improve your health literacy

 

You can improve health literacy!!

  Check out our information for patients, medical providers, and public health professionals!

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