Improving Health Literacy

Health literacy is defined as "the ability to understand information related to one's health in order to make effective and appropriate decisions". Health literacy encompasses complex set of reading, listening. analytical and decision making skills and the ability to apply these skills into health situations. Poor Health literacy can cause many problems and decline the well-being and quality of life among the older population. People with low health literacy are prone to develop chronic diseases and mortality rate in this group is also high.