At what level can the connotation of health literacy be understood?

Health literacy refers to an individual’s ability to obtain and understand health information and use this information to maintain and promote their own health. Health literacy includes knowledge level and ability level. The knowledge level is basic health knowledge and health skills; the ability level is health information literacy.

Health information literacy refers to people’s ability to obtain, understand, identify, and apply health information. Health information literacy is the core of health literacy. Residents with good health information literacy can obtain more disease prevention and treatment knowledge through various channels and develop a healthy lifestyle; residents with good health information literacy can better communicate with doctors when seeking medical treatment and actively cooperate with doctors in treatment, thereby It can effectively alleviate the contradiction between doctors and patients and improve the treatment effect; in addition, good health literacy can also greatly improve the public's self-protection ability, thus playing an important role in responding to public health emergencies.