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    H E A L T H   I N F O R M A T I O N   D E S I G N  

HEALTH LITERACY

FUNCTIONAL

HEALTH  LITERACY

The ability to understand health information sufficiently enough to take appropriate decisions about your own condition or treatment

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reading print v digital

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pateint-consumer-health-literacy

Understanding how we read and

recall health information is just

as important the messages

it contains

Those with the lowest levels of

literacy, who need help

the most are also the

hardest to reach

Digital  Information is harder to

recall because our brains will

only scan only part of it

rather than read it all

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DIGITAL

HEALTH  LITERACY

The ability to read and recall health information. viewed on a digital platform compared to  reading on

more traditional print media.