43% of English working-age adults do not have the health literacy skills to routinely understand health information (61% if this includes or involves numbers).
According to the Royal College of General Practitioners, health information is ‘too complex’ for more than 60% of working age adults to understand, which means that they are unable to effectively understand and use health information. Those with lower levels of health literacy are more likely to suffer from health inequalities that lead to the poorest health outcomes.
Here are the links to a new health literacy toolkit, produced as a partnership between NHS England, Public Health England, Health Education England and the Community Health and Learning Foundation and launched today.
https://www.hee.nhs.uk/our-work/hospitals-primary-community-care/population-health-prevention/health-literacy/health-literacy-toolkit
News item:
https://www.hee.nhs.uk/news-blogs-events/hee-news/toolkit-launched-tackle-low-health-literacy
According to the Royal College of General Practitioners, health information is ‘too complex’ for more than 60% of working age adults to understand, which means that they are unable to effectively understand and use health information. Those with lower levels of health literacy are more likely to suffer from health inequalities that lead to the poorest health outcomes.
Here are the links to a new health literacy toolkit, produced as a partnership between NHS England, Public Health England, Health Education England and the Community Health and Learning Foundation and launched today.
https://www.hee.nhs.uk/our-work/hospitals-primary-community-care/population-health-prevention/health-literacy/health-literacy-toolkit
News item:
https://www.hee.nhs.uk/news-blogs-events/hee-news/toolkit-launched-tackle-low-health-literacy
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