La alfabetización en salud en el adulto mayor en el marco de los derechos humanos

Abstract

Health literacy is an emerging and multidimensional concept that preferentially affects the core of two fundamental rights, such as the right to education and the right to health. From a human rights perspective approach, considering a positive vision of aging, health literacy is aligned with lifelong learning concept, the construction of a new citizenship, the empowerment of elderly people, their digital inclusion and the construction of a legal framework that encourages and guarantees the full enjoyment of their rights and freedoms. Complexity in health system negatively affects to health of elderly people with limited literacy, as well as it affects their individual autonomy and constitutes a problem of inequality and justice in health.