Investigating the role of media literacy in the health literacy of Ahvaz citizens

High health literacy regulates people's health and nutritional behaviors and reduces harmful behaviors, and on the other hand, performing preventive and self-care behaviors is directly related to health literacy in society. Considering the importance of discussing health literacy, the present research seeks to answer the main question that the role of media literacy in health literacy in How much is it among the citizens of Ahvaz? The statistical population of the current research is the citizens of Ahvaz city over 18 years of age, of which 600 people have been examined as the sample size.The results of the research indicate that between media literacy (0.34) and its dimensions, i.e. media information evaluation (0.33), purposeful use of media (0.37), combining information (0.30), exchange Information (0.39) and how to use the media (0.27) have a positive, direct and meaningful relationship with citizens' health literacy. Therefore, all research hypotheses are confirmed. The results of the structural equation model (Smart PLS) also showed that the effect of the independent variable of media literacy on citizens' health literacy is 0.53.