Question

What is the impact of health literacy on health care?

Answer 1

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According to studies adult Medicare beneficiaries with low health literacy have higher medical cost

- also increased access to health care

- education may also impact literacy

- the lack of health literacy results in the underutilizarion of prevents resources such as vaccination and routine screening

- influence a patient understanding of clinicious instructions on medication

- that may effect management of cronic condition such as asthma ,high BP , diabetes

- the individual ability to manage personal health and health literacy is important

- also for navigate the health care system ,share healthy history with health care provider

- it engage itself - care and manage cronic disease

- and understand concept such as probability and risk

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- it is a key issues in the health and health care domain

Ex:- low or linked health literacy skills are more prevent among certain population groups and may be linked to many poor health outcomes