Health Literacy

Preferred Label : Health Literacy;

NCIt definition : The degree to which an individual has the capacity to obtain, communicate, process, and understand basic health information and services to make health decisions. (After The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, Title V; After What is Health Literacy? Oct 23, 2019);

Alternative definition : CDISC-GLOSS: The degree to which an individual has the capacity to obtain, communicate, process, and understand basic health information and services to make health decisions. [After The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, Title V; After What is Health Literacy? Oct 23, 2019]. See also plain language writing.;

NCI Metathesaurus CUI : CL106703;

Details

Origin ID

C176259;

UMLS CUI

C2362527;

Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Health literacy [ICHI target]
- Health literacy [ICHI extension code]
- Health literacy (observable entity) [SNOMED CT concept]
- health education [MeSH Descriptor]
- health literacy [Artificial nutrition thesaurus concept]
- health literacy [MeSH concept]
- health literacy [MedlinePlus Topic]
- health literacy [ICPS Descriptor]
- health literacy [MeSH Descriptor]
Semantic type(s)
- Mental Process [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Health literacy (observable entity) [SNOMED CT concept]
- health literacy [MeSH Descriptor]
- health literacy [MeSH concept]
- health literacy [MedlinePlus Topic]
concept_is_in_subset
- CDISC Glossary Terminology [NCIt concept]
- Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium Terminology [NCIt concept]

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