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Exploring Health Literacy Skills

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Rowlands, Protheroe, Winkley, Richardson, Seed, & Rudd (2015) conducted a study to explore health literacy skills in an English setting, bringing expertise from clinical practice, public health, and educators. The objectives were to assess a variety of health materials to determine the inception of health literacy and proficiency skills needed to understand and use for health purpose and to describe the English working-age population in relative to the thresholds. A competency threshold of 70% was adopted that reflects normal English practice and that similar to the US threshold of 67% (Rowlands, et al, 2015).

The study intent was to demonstrate that low health literacy is concomitant with poorer health and higher mortality rate and to establish that multifaceted health materials are barriers to health. The ideas were to assess the literateness and proficiency skills necessary to understand and use common used English health information materials, and to define populace skills in absorbing health information. An observational learning to compare health materials with national working-age population skills was implemented. …show more content…

The materials from topics within each structured area were autonomously sampled. All substances were available nationwide and publicly in health and public libraries and the internet. The sampled materials were individualistically assessed by external experts in areas of significance to health literacy and health trainers were included. 33 experts, which include 6 nurses, 6 General Practice, 6 hospital consultants, 5 dieticians/nutritionists, 2 National Health System managers, 2 road safety experts, 2health trainers, 2 health promotion experts and one public health consultant (Rowlands, et al,

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