Document Type
Honors Thesis
Abstract
Health literacy is defined as the cognitive and social skills that determine the motivation and ability of individuals to gain access to, understand, and use information in ways that promote and maintain good health. Many studies have identified that there is a problem with health literacy among Hispanics in the United States. This research thesis explores why health literacy is a problem, the history of social work’s role in health literacy, the Hispanic health literacy problem, social work’s role in addressing it, and what health literacy looks like in a Hispanic country.
Publication Date
5-1-2018
Language
English
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Lopez, Marissa, "HEALTH LITERACY IN SOCIAL WORK" (2018). 2018 Spring Honors Capstone Projects. 37.
https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/honors_spring2018/37