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health literacy

degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions
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health literacy

Summary

health literacy is a literacy[1]. It draws 93 Wikipedia views per month (literacy category, ranking #2 of 4).[2]

Key Facts

  • health literacy's instance of is recorded as literacy[3].
  • health literacy is a type of health education[4].
  • health literacy is a type of competence[5].
  • health literacy is a type of information literacy[6].
  • health literacy's Commons category is recorded as Health literacy[7].
  • health literacy's different from is recorded as functional health literacy[8].

Body

Definition and Type

health literacy's instance of is recorded as literacy[3]. Recorded subclass of include health education[4], competence[5], and information literacy[6].

Why It Matters

health literacy draws 93 Wikipedia views per month (literacy category, ranking #2 of 4).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[9] It is known by 8 alternative names across languages and contexts.[10]

Related Entities

information literacy literacy

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . cdc.gov. Retrieved . cdc.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . cdc.gov. Retrieved . cdc.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [9] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [10] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 17d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → functional health literacy
    Subclass of → health education, competence, information literacy
    Instance of → —
    Aliases → —
    + 2 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|14 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 26366, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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