Health literacy involves understanding information about an individual's health in order for one to make informed decisions and know how they can take care of themselves.it is therefore very important for both children and their parents to be health literate. People who are not health literate can have a problem especially when it comes to taking instructions from doctors .this is because they might not know or understand these instructions and how they can best take care of their illnesses. For those parents who are not health literate they can be educated on the topic. They have to be helped to ensure that they are health literate. Parents can be educated on health topics through various ways. First of all parents can be guided by doctors on where they can get health information. Doctors and nurses can provide them with names of books, magazines or sites they can visit where they will get to read and understand various health topics. They can also be provided with videos which contain health topics for them to go and watch at home. There can also be some conferences organized where health specialists are invited to address parents on health topics. These conferences are aimed at imparting health literacy to parents. Through these conferences the parents are also advised on how they can understand health information which they read. They are also guided on how they...
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