2015, Number 04
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MediSan 2015; 19 (04)
Literacy in health: conceptual base and evidences in dentistry
Cartes-Velásquez RA
Language: Spanish
References: 37
Page: 562-570
PDF size: 394.37 Kb.
ABSTRACT
If literacy in health is based on the capacity to achieve and to maintain a good health
state interacting with the social field (health systems), the empiric evidence consists of
demonstrating the direct relation among both categories. In dentistry, the literacy in
oral health refers to its impact in the health of people itself or of those who are in
charge of, for example in the binomial mother-son. At present several psychometrical
tools exist to measure those 2 literacies, classified in: recognition and pronunciation of
medical terms, understanding and control questions; but there are no validated tools in
Spanish to evaluate the one related to dentistry. Precisely for this last limitation,
researches are scarce in Latin America about literacy on oral health, which is
equivalent to lost opportunities to improve the oral health of the Ecuador population.
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