please explain if you can..thank you.?

Question

explain how being a health literate helps you achieve and maintain a good health.

Answer 1

You can't practice what you don't know or understand. Therefore, it is important to be knowledgeable about health in order to maintain good health.

Answer 2

Miriam Webster defines literate as:

Main Entry: 2literate
Function: noun
1 : an educated person
2 : a person who can read and write


So if you are a health literate person (a health educated person) you can apply your knowledge to your own lifesyle, using your abundant information on the subject to "achieve and maintain good health."

Pretty simple, huh?

Answer 3

Go to: http://www.healthliteracy.com/