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Health Literacy - correct answer ✔Health literacy is the degree to which an individual has the capacity
to obtain process and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate
health decisions
Cultural competency - correct answer ✔The ability of health care provider and health care
organizations to understand and respond effectively to the cultural and linguistic needs brought by the
patient to the health care encounter
Limited English Proficiency (LEP) - correct answer ✔Anything less than reading, writing, speaking, and
understanding English very well is LEP.
Health care communication is - correct answer ✔health literacy+ cultural competency + and limited
English proficiency
Patient health literacy maybe influenced by - correct answer ✔socio-culture factors
1- Education
2- Income
3- The country of origin
4- Level of assimilation to the patient culture
5- Language
6-Gender
7- Socioeconomic status
8- sexual orientation and gender identity
9- physical and mental capacity
10- age
, 11- religion
the cultural literacy is - correct answer ✔the prime mediator among the cultural factors
Patient's health literacy affects persons ability to - correct answer ✔1- Navigate the health care system
including locating health care professional and services and filling out forms.
2- share personal and health information with a health care professional
3- actively manage their healthcare including asking questions about diagnosis, prescribe medication
and procedures
4- engage in self-care and disease management
5- Adapt health-promoting behaviors such as exercising and eat a healthy diet
6- act on health-related news and announcements
what Factors that influence health Literacy - correct answer ✔1- Patient Communication Skills
2- Patient Knowledge of Health
3- Provider Communication skills
4- Situations
5- Disabilities
6- culture
Another way to identify patient limited health literacy is by looking for red flags such as - correct answer
✔1- miss appointments
2- Fail to follow through with laboratory test, imaging test, or referrals to consultants.
3- fill out-patient registration forms incompletely or inaccurately
4- have difficulty explaining medical concerns
5- May not be able to articulate symptoms or the course of illness
6- seek help only when the illness is advanced