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Our Goal
Our initiatives aim to improve health literacy related to health insurance, health systems, and health behaviors in Louisville communities that disproportionately experience social and health inequities.
Health literacy is “the degree to which an individual has the capacity to obtain, communicate, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions.”1
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (2010). Healthy People 2010. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.