This issue of Visions: BC’s Mental Health and Addictions Journal explores Health Literacy. What does literacy have to do with health or mental health? If we think of literacy as reading (understanding information) and writing (communicating information), we can see how it might apply to mental health information. You need to understand information from professionals like doctors, of course. But the real benefits of health literacy are in your ability to consider the different ways to use that information to make changes that improve your health or support good health. Read Health Literacy online >>
