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What is “Health Literacy”?

Medical and Social Sciences researchers define "Health Literacy" differently. For Nutbeam [1], researchers in the field of Medicine refer to health literacy as a "risk factor", equivalent to any risk factor that can (or should) be assessed clinically. On the other hand, researchers in Social Sciences envision health literacy as a personal “asset” to be built.

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