Optimizing health literacy: Improving health and reducing health inequities

Overview

This series of information sheets introduces health literacy, its relevance to public policy, and the ways it can be used to inform the promotion of good health, the prevention and management of communicable and non-communicable diseases, and the reduction of health inequities. It provides information and links to further resources to assist organizations and governments to incorporate health literacy responses into practice, service delivery systems, and policy. The selection of information sheets found in this pack have been drawn from The Health Literacy Toolkit for Low- and Middle-Income Countries. World Health Organization (WHO) (Dodson S, Good S & Osborne RH [ed], 2015).