Information, tools and resources for primary health care providers and community
The words ‘health literacy’ describe how a person accesses, processes, understands and communicates information about health and healthcare.
When a person has good health literacy, they can make better choices about their health. This helps them lead a healthier life, lower medical costs, and avoid hospital stays.
There are two main parts of health literacy:
Individual health literacy – A person’s ability to find and use health information to make good choices about their health
The health literacy environment – How easy or hard the health system makes it for people to manage their health
By clicking on one of the links below, you can find tools and resources to help improve health literacy. These tools can be used in a doctor’s office, at a hospital or any place you use health services.
