Evaluating Health Information and Consumer Choices
The module provides vital skills to critically analyze health information from various sources, foster informed consumer choices regarding health products and services, and promote advocacy for health in communities. It emphasizes the importance of media literacy, the identification of credible health resources, and evaluating fitness products, dietary supplements, and health services while encouraging individual and group advocacy efforts for better health outcomes.
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6.3.GeneralGeneral Consumer Strategies
What we have learnt
- Health media literacy involves accessing, analyzing, evaluating, and creating health-related media.
- Reliable health resources are evidence-based, unbiased, authoritative, current, transparent, and accessible.
- Evaluating health products and services requires critical questions about their claims, benefits, and risks.
Key Concepts
- -- Health Media Literacy
- The ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and create health-related media.
- -- Credible Health Resources
- Sources of health information characterized by being evidence-based, unbiased, authoritative, current, transparent, and accessible.
- -- Health Advocacy
- Actions taken by individuals or groups to promote and protect the health of others or themselves.
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