Application of the Concept of Health Literacy in Nursing Process for Sustainable Development in Health
Keywords:
Health literacy, Nursing process, Sustainable developmentin healthAbstract
Concept of Health Literacy is focused on developing a person to have knowledge and understanding
health issue.Person can analyze and select the appropriateplanning to achieve their goals of health behavior
change.Person can provide knowledge how to change behavior to otherpeople. The purpose of this article is
to make theRegistered Nurse understand to concept,element, level of health literacy and relationship between
health literacy and health promotion and applied to nursing process.Registered Nurse is an important for help
driving public health policy and develop knowledge, which focuses on promoting the knowledge of health to
self-reliance and development.
The application of the concept of health literacy in the nursing process requires finding problems and
needs. In addition, the evaluation of the problems will be conducted in a systematic with appropriate media.
leading to the implementation of and monitoring for ongoing and dynamic results. The concept of health
knowledge can be applied to both Individual, family, community levels, but there may be differences in which
the family and community levels should take into consideration the way of life and work. It is necessary to
adjust the activities or times in accordance with that context, and it will require community involvement.
Communities and network partners must participate part in solving problems and development planning until
they are a literate community. The leaders of nursing and nursing professional have also joined plan and set
goals in enhancing health literacy by applying nursing processto establish quality standards for nursing and
Sustainable developmentin health.
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