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health literacy

health literacy noun: agility in obtaining, evaluating, and applying health information.

Noun

health literacy (uncountable)

  1. Agility in obtaining, evaluating, and applying health information.

health literacy meaning in Tamil

health literacy in Tamil

நலவாழ்வுக் கல்வி

Origin of health literacy

Introduced in a 1975 paper by Scott K. Simonds, Professor of Health Education at the University of Michigan.

Words formed from health literacy

  • health-literate
  • mental health literacy

Questions about health literacy

What does health literacy mean?
Health literacy means agility in obtaining, evaluating, and applying health information.
What is health literacy in Tamil?
Health literacy in Tamil is நலவாழ்வுக் கல்வி. See Health literacy meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is health literacy?
Health literacy is a noun.

Words near health literacy in the dictionary

  1. health informatics
  2. health insurance
  3. health insurances
  4. health is wealth
  5. health is your first wealth
  6. health literacy
  7. health maintenance organization
  8. health maintenance organizations
  9. health physicist
  10. health physicists
  11. health physics

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: health literacy (page history and authors); health literacy (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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