What is health literacy?

Health literacy is about how well people can access, understand and act on health information and services.

Some things you can do to improve your health literacy are:

• Making sure you use reliable sources of health information.
• Keeping your medications and information about your health organised and up to date.
• Taking friends or family as support to appointments.
• Asking what other services are available to help you.
• Asking questions when you are not sure about something.
• Participating in making decisions about your health to get the right care for you.
• Giving feedback to health services.