Essay On Health Care Skills

To be health literate is something that cannot only help you, but others. It’s to have a simple four skills which includes: effective communication, self-directed learning, critical learning, and responisible citizenship. The skills do take some work, but with self-discipline and being able to realize the importance of the knowledge, results will begin to show. Health literacy keeps you more informed about your health and what can effect it. One of the skills is your ability to effectivally communiticate your knowledge and beliefs about health. Personally I believe this is one of my stronger skills. I’m always sharing my fun facts about health, giving workout tips, and even telling people that their gatorade should be half-water(thank you Mrs. Lettner). This is one of the easier skills to improve because it could be as simple as looking up a simple health fact and spreading it around to people. Although it is a very simple one, I also find it to be one of the most important because when someone tells me a fact or belief about what can help my health, I always look it up to see if it’s true and from that way, I’ve gained a lot of knowledge about my personal health. The next skill I’d to discuss is self-directed

This skill is one that focuses more on your community than yourself. This is to behave in ways that improve your home, school, community, and the world. You can do so by keeping your neighborhood clean, volunteering in your community, and knowning about the local health issues. Another thing that you can do, is to do your best at always setting a good example for others to hope that they do the same. One one end I believe I do a great job with this skill with setting a good example about working hard and picking up trash whenever I see it, but I do know that I need to volunteer more and set a better example with my atitiude when I’m approached with something I don’t like or interests