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Unit 3: Health, Determinants and Communities
Quick questions on Health literacy: WACE Year 12 Health Studies Unit 3
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What is the three levels of health literacy?Show answer
Functional health literacy is the foundation: the basic reading, writing and numeracy skills needed to understand straightforward health information. A person with strong functional literacy can read a medicine label, follow dosage instructions, understand an appointment letter and complete a consent form. When functional literacy is low, even simple instructions can be misread, leading to missed medication or missed appointments.
What is health literacy as a determinant of inequity?Show answer
Health literacy is unevenly distributed, and that uneven distribution helps explain unequal health outcomes. People with less education, those for whom English is an additional language, older people and people facing disadvantage are more likely to have lower health literacy. They are then less able to navigate services, understand prevention messages or challenge misleading information, so the same health system produces worse outcomes for them. This makes health literacy a powerful link between the social determinants studied earlier and the health promotion strategies studied later.
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