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Understanding and mitigating low health literacy

Last Reviewed: 17/02/2025
Nurse explaining a condition to a patient

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Learn what strategies and techniques can be used to mitigate low health literacy among patients and service users.

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This resource is aimed at nurses and nursing support workers across all settings and levels of practice, including students of health, social work and care professions.

Authors

Dominique Byrne

Senior staff nurse, critical care, Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust, Portsmouth, England. The author would like to thank Rebecca Howes, clinical librarian at Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust, for the support and information provided.

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Last Reviewed: 17/02/2025