HEALTH LITERACY
FUNCTIONAL
HEALTH LITERACY
The ability to understand health
information sufficiently enough to
take appropriate decisions about
your own condition or treatment
information recall
Understanding how you read the
same information on different
platforms is crucial if you
need to recall it later
Higher levels of low health
literacy is found among the
poor and elderly - who are
also the hardest to reach
Information viewed on digital
devices is harder to absorb
because our brain will scan
it rather than read it all
DIGITAL
HEALTH LITERACY
Recall after reading printed information has been shown to be four times better
than reading the same information from a digital platform
The ability to recall information read
on a digital platform compared to
reading from a traditional
printed media.