What’s well being literacy?
Well being literacy means figuring out easy methods to discover, perceive, and use well being data to make the very best selections for themselves and others.
Why is well being literacy essential?
Well being literacy is essential as a result of it helps folks perceive well being data, make selections that assist them keep wholesome, and get the care they want. Well being literacy helps folks care for their well being by understanding care directions, noticing issues early, and staying secure. It additionally saves cash, makes care fairer for everybody, and offers folks the arrogance to ask questions and make the very best well being selections for themselves
Who wants well being literacy?
Everybody does! Well being literacy isn’t only for individuals who communicate one other language or didn’t go to school. Even individuals who learn properly and perceive numbers can have a tough time with well being data, particularly once they really feel frightened, scared, or confused.
Subsequent time you’re on the physician, don’t be afraid to ask your well being staff to “Say it merely!”
Occasions and actions 2025
Coloring contest
Well being Literacy Pop-Up Cubicles
- Orange — Tuesday, Oct. 7, 6:30 to eight a.m.; 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.; and 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. on the Invoice Holmes second-floor foyer
- Mission — Tuesday, Oct. 7, beginning at 10 a.m. within the fifth-floor foyer
- San Diego — Monday, Oct. 20, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in entrance of the ACP Constructing
Expensive Hospital Pop-Up at Orange Hospital
- Go to the show within the Invoice Holmes Foyer
- Open from Friday, Oct. 10, to Friday, Oct. 17.
Storytime with Lois at Orange Hospital
- Thursday, Oct. 30, 2 p.m. on the Household Useful resource Heart
- Get pleasure from a enjoyable story with our resident canine
Affected person and Household Well being Literacy Toolkit
Try our toolkit to be taught extra about well being literacy.
Get Concerned! Assist unfold the phrase! Obtain and share the Well being Literacy Month flyer with your loved ones, mates, and neighborhood to advertise consciousness and participation.
Disclaimer: Youngsters’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC) and Rady Youngsters’s Hospital San Diego have united beneath a mixed nonprofit mum or dad group known as Rady Youngsters’s Well being. This web page might embrace hyperlinks to each CHOC and Rady Youngsters’s Hospital San Diego web sites.