Health Literacy Communication Strategies to Improve Patient Comprehension of Cardiovascular Health

摘要

To care for themselves and participate in their health care, patients must be'able to understand and act on information and instructions given to them by their healthcare providers. This concept is known as health literacy, which is defined as "the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and health services needed to make appropriate health decisions."1 Basic literacy skills, such as proficiency in reading, writing, listening, interpreting images, and interacting with documents, as well as facility with numeric concepts and basic computation, are central to the concept of health literacy and greatly affect a patient's level of health literacy#