Health Literacy 101
This skill helps a person ask the right questions at a doctor’s visit.
What is communication?
If you don’t have a car or public transit, this can become a health barrier.
What is Transportation?
When confused about medication instructions, the first step is to do this.
What is ask your doctor or pharmacist?
Growing up in a safe, nurturing environment supports this lifelong health benefit.
What is positive mental and physical development?
Knowing when to take medicine (once a day, twice a day) involves understanding this.
What is dosage?
Understanding nutrition labels is an example of this.
Being uninsured is an example of this type of barrier.
What is financial barrier or healthcare access barrier?
True or False: People with lower education levels are less likely to be insured
What is true?
Lack of clean water and sanitation can cause outbreaks of this kind of disease.
What is infectious disease?
Health forms written at a college reading level may be hard to understand because of this.
What is technical language?
True or False: Health literacy only matters when you're sick.
What is False?
This type of stress comes from living in unsafe neighborhoods.
What is chronic stress or trauma?
Choosing a primary care provider for regular checkups is an example of using this.
What is preventative care?
People with strong friendships and family ties tend to have this type of health outcome.
What is better overall health or longer life expectancy?
Patients must understand this number to manage diabetes effectively.
What is blood sugar level (or glucose level)?
People with low health literacy are more likely to visit here instead of a primary care doctor.
What is the Emergency Department?
Difficulty reading prescription labels can lead to this outcome.
What is medication misuse or error?
This free service at many pharmacies can help patients manage medications better.
What is medication counseling or medication review?
True or False: Your ZIP code can be a stronger predictor of health than your genetic code.
What is true?
This term describes the overall cost you must pay out of pocket before insurance covers the rest.
What is deductible?
This term refers to differences in health care access due to race, income, or geography.
What is health disparities?
Environmental hazards are more likely to affect this group
Who are low-income or marginalized communities?
This type of bias in healthcare can lead to unequal treatment
What is implicit bias?
This term describes limited access to fresh, affordable food
The organization that defined SDOH as "conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age"
World Health Organization