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Abstract
The Health Literacy Questionnaire, a reliable and valid tool, created in 2013, has been translated into multiple languages and used in different settings all over the world in Eastern and Western cultures. Is it a tool that will determine the level of health literacy for the customers of a hospital library or consumer health library? Will it reflect the level of health literacy for public library users in the United States? This column dissects the essence and questions of the Health Literacy Questionnaire and suggests ways to successfully use it.
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Helen-Ann Brown Epstein
Helen-Ann Brown Epstein has been an energetic, enthusiastic, dedicated health sciences librarian for almost 50 years, as a hospital librarian, clinical outreach librarian and trainer for searching health sciences information resources. She has been involved with the Medical Library Association on a local and national level, mentoring, teaching, presenting, sitting on committees and task forces, and chairing a MLA chapter. Helen-Ann is most proud to be a Distinguished AHIP member, MLA Fellow and a current member of the MLA Vision 2048 Task Force. Currently she is the Health Literacy Column editor for this journal, after years as the Associate Editor of the Journal of Hospital Librarianship.