Health Literacy

A Tool for Health Communication and Promotion

Abstract

This paper examined health literacy: a tool for health promotion and communication. The paper discussed the concept of health, health literacy, and goals of health literacy to health promotion and communication, typology of health literacy and dimensions of health literacy as a key outcome of health promotion and communication. This paper also identified the benefits of health literacy, challenges of health literacy, and way out of challenges of health literacy. It concluded that health literacy provides improvement and empowerment of people’s access to health information and their capacity to use effectively. However, contain ambiguous words so that every individual can understand, use, process the information, also that public health messages and campaign should be carried out through information communication and technology, there should be health empowerment and motivation programme in order to sensitize and inspire the individual and community even the special needs of the people.