October 2020

October is Health Literacy Month.

THIS is one of the main reason I write my books.

This month is recognized as a time to show the importance of making health information easy to understand and the health care system easier to navigate.

This year, the one of the focus is on Healthy People 2030’s updated definition of health literacy! A team of experts recently split the definition into 2 parts:

• Personal health literacy: The degree to which individuals have the ability to find, understand, and use information and services to inform health-related decisions and actions for themselves and others.

• Organizational health literacy: The degree to which organizations equitably enable individuals to find, understand, and use information and services to inform health-related decisions and actions for themselves and others.

Among other changes, this new definition acknowledges that organizations have a responsibility to address health literacy — and emphasizes people’s ability not just to understand health information but also to use it.

This above info was retrieved from the website below.

https://health.gov/news/202010/october-health-literacy-month#:~:text=Every%20October%2C%20we%20celebrate%20Health,updated%20definition%20of%20health%20literacy!

Please visit the above website!!