Nearly one in four adults lacks basic health literacy — And it’s costing the world $303 billion a year

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  Umar Aman / 18 minutes
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The ability to read a prescription label, understand a discharge summary, or know when a symptom warrants a doctor’s visit — these feel like basic life skills. But for nearly one in four adults across 40 countries studied by Economist Impact, they aren’t. And the consequences, a newly published policy brief argues, are devastating: poorer health outcomes, widening […]