Promoting Information Literacy by Promoting Health Literacy in the Information Society
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In the information society¡ the production¡ distribution and use of information are freely and widely available for all issues of life. Proper and appropriate use of reliable information is especially important in health care. The present study introduces the concepts and benefits of health literacy and information literacy and its role in improving health literacy. This study was a review based on the concepts of information society¡ information literacy and information education to present importance of promoting information literacy on health literacy in the information society. The information society is presented by providing a platform of information technology and computer systems to attempt to exchange and develop information among people in the community. Currently¡ electronic and web-based health information in the mass form is available. Information as a fundamental base of the information society is a phenomenon that our decisions are affected in relation to various issues such as safety and health issues. It is important to avoid the mass of invalid¡ incorrect and inappropriate information which is available on the internet. This requires information literacy skills such as identifying¡ accessing and evaluating information. In general¡ it can be said that the promotion of health literacy in communities requires learning different skills in the form of information literacy.Data obtained from this study can be used in developing the long term health programs to prevention of non-communicable diseases in our country
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Persian
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Depiction of Health, Volume:7 Issue: 2, 2016
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57
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