1. Helping Students Improve Their Health Literacy: Editor: Sarah Benes.
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Horne, Andy
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HEALTH Literacy Month , *COMMUNICATION , *DECISION making , *EMOTIONS , *HEALTH , *INTERPERSONAL relations , *PATIENT advocacy , *INFORMATION resources , *HEALTH literacy - Abstract
October is Health Literacy Month and is a time for organizations and individuals to promote the importance of maintaining and enhancing health. Now more than ever, we are seeing the importance of the health skills and competency in navigating a global pandemic and a system of social and racial injustice. As health educators it gives us a tremendous opportunity to deliver meaningful lessons that will impact our students for the rest of their lives. How can health educators teach students what it means to be health literate and to develop their health literacy? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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