Health literacy is defined as the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions [1]. Health literacy is important because it affects a individual’s ability to manage personal health: to navigate the healthcare system, share health history with healthcare providers, engage in self-care and manage chronic disease, and understand concepts such as probability and risk.
Health 2.0 Highlights: February 9th, 2009
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- Improving Your Medical Literacy | The Decision Tree
Decreased mortality is one of a number of benefits of health literacy. While health 2.0 empowers the next-generation of healthcare consumers, we shouldn't forget about the other half of the problem.
- PeRSSonalized Medicine | Webicina.Com
A free tool that lets you create your own "medical journal" and read the latest news and articles in one personalized place.
- Hospital Social Network List | Found In Cache
Ed Bennet catalogs 150 U.S. Hospitals that use YouTube, Facebook or Twitter (includes links to each resource).
- 140 Health Care Uses for Twitter | phil baumann online
What is healthcare doing with micro-sharing platforms such as Twitter? Phil Baumann has 140 suggestions.
- Twitter Doctors, Medical Students and Medicine related | Medical Student Blog
The Medical Student Blog provides a comprehensive list of doctors, medical students and medicine-related tweets and blogs/websits.
