Health Literacy Month - Digital Health Literacy

Digital Health Literacy: Separating Fact From Fiction
Health Ed: 10.2012

Do people with limited literacy skills use the Web and/or other electronic means to access health information? Even if they want to, do they have the skills to do so? And can anything be done to help improve their experience?

Some of the following statements* are factual, and others are fictional. See if you know which are which. You may be surprised by what you learn.

Fact or fiction:
~ People with limited literacy skills are generally unwilling to use the Web to access health information.
~ People with limited literacy skills avoid searching.
~ People with limited literacy skills tend to view screen content in a random, erratic pattern.
~ Many Web users with limited literacy skills prefer reading from printouts of pages from a Web site to reading text on a computer screen.
~ Offering information in multiple formats—such as audio clips, video clips, and slide shows—often overwhelms Web users with limited literacy skills.
~ People with limited literacy skills will probably be intimidated by new media such as text messaging, blogs, Twitter, and webcasts.
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