{"id":1863,"date":"2012-04-10T08:54:55","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T14:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.med.utah.edu\/blog\/eccles\/?p=1863"},"modified":"2012-04-10T08:54:55","modified_gmt":"2012-04-10T14:54:55","slug":"health-literacy-simple-definition-thoughtful-implementation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.med.utah.edu\/blog\/eccles\/2012\/04\/10\/health-literacy-simple-definition-thoughtful-implementation\/","title":{"rendered":"Health literacy: simple definition, thoughtful implementation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/library.med.utah.edu\/blog\/eccles\/?s=health+literacy\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-961\" style=\"border: 0pt none; float: left; padding:0.5em;\" title=\"Health Literacy logo\" src=\"http:\/\/library.med.utah.edu\/blog\/eccles\/files\/2011\/08\/logoHealthLiteracy.png\" alt=\"Health literacy logo\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a>While browsing Twitter for a blog post topic, I came across a link to the <a title=\"center for health literacy at university of maryland\" href=\"http:\/\/www.healthliteracy.umd.edu\/\">Center for Health Literacy<\/a> at the University of Maryland School of Public Health. Upon visiting their site, I found a definition of health literacy that is concise and understandable:<\/p>\n<p>Health literacy is the ability to get information, understand it, and use information to lower risk and better health.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, this site posted a YouTube video from Harvard School of Public Health&#8217;s Dr. Rima Rudd, Senior Lecturer on Society, Human Development, and Health. In it, she talks about the &#8220;<a title=\"perspective article by doctor rudd\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMp1008755\">Perspective<\/a>&#8221; article she wrote for the New England Journal of Medicine on improving Americans&#8217; health literacy.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_d-dtYTpdCw\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, NEJM&#8217;s link to one of the sources cited in her paper is not working properly, namely, the report &#8220;<a title=\"working link to report\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/HpKTp7\">Literacy &amp; Health Outcomes<\/a>&#8221; from AHRQ (the link to the left works). If only librarians had been consulted in the building of the Internet and World Wide Web&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Found a concise definition of &#8220;health literacy,&#8221; and a thoughtful YouTube video as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,166,84],"tags":[4931,4927],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-information","category-information-literacy","category-public-health","tag-health-literacy","tag-public-health"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-19 10:23:45","action":"category","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.med.utah.edu\/blog\/eccles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.med.utah.edu\/blog\/eccles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.med.utah.edu\/blog\/eccles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.med.utah.edu\/blog\/eccles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.med.utah.edu\/blog\/eccles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1863"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.med.utah.edu\/blog\/eccles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1865,"href":"https:\/\/library.med.utah.edu\/blog\/eccles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863\/revisions\/1865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.med.utah.edu\/blog\/eccles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.med.utah.edu\/blog\/eccles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.med.utah.edu\/blog\/eccles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1863"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.med.utah.edu\/blog\/eccles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}