The Impact Of Health Literacy On Society

Health literacy is a relatively new concept that was developed in response to the healthcare industry's realization that a large segment of the population is woefully ignorant about personal healthcare issues. An asthma study using 483 patients revealed that although two thirds of them were high school graduates, only 60% of them could read above the sixth grade level, and the low of literacy levels had a direct correlation to poor metered dose inhaler technique. For those patients reading

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