What does health literacy mean?

Health literacy refers to the ability of individuals to obtain and understand health information and use it to maintain and promote their own health. The evaluation index of residents' health literacy is included in the national health development plan as an evaluation index that comprehensively reflects the national health development. ?

Health literacy includes three aspects:

Basic knowledge and concepts, healthy lifestyle and behavior, basic skills.

Ways and means to improve health literacy;

Health literacy is an important index to measure health education, and health education is the main means to improve health literacy. Only by understanding the connotation of health literacy and in-depth study of health literacy can we find the correct way to effectively improve health literacy. Health literacy mainly includes health knowledge and health skills. To improve health literacy, we should adjust measures to local conditions and teach students in accordance with their aptitude.

Health departments at all levels should take the initiative to strengthen communication and cooperation between departments, so that the popularization of health literacy can get more understanding and support from all departments, strive to achieve resource sharing and complementary advantages, and strive to solve the outstanding problems faced by the popularization of health literacy and the most concerned, direct and realistic health and hygiene problems of the masses. Incorporate the popularization of health literacy into social development planning, establish a long-term, stable and effective mechanism, and ensure that policies, measures and work are put in place.

Attach importance to health education. With the improvement of public health awareness, people gradually realize the role of health education. Modern medical research has found that many diseases are related to people's bad lifestyle, psychological quality and social and environmental factors. Unhealthy habits, unscientific lifestyles and unhealthy behaviors have become important causes of human diseases.

In order to reduce this kind of diseases caused by bad habits and unscientific lifestyles, changing behavior habits is the key. The change of behavior habits mainly depends on individuals, the driving force of change lies in the improvement of understanding, and the key to improving understanding lies in education.

By means of education, people's knowledge of health science is popularized, which helps the public to establish correct health concepts, develop good health habits, establish healthy behaviors and lifestyles, and improve the public's self-care ability.