User:LittleLadyBigCity/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
(Health literacy)

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

I chose Health Literacy to evaluate and update in Wikipedia because I work in the Healthcare Industry and I find that there is a disconnect in patient's understanding and the importance of the literature we give them. Week to week, patients miss their scheduled scans and follow-up appointments. I feel that if patients took a more hands on approach to their own care they would not miss scans and appointments. The article is a good article, but it does not cover enough health literacy and how it affects marginalized groups. Hopefully, with the addition of my updates there will be others narrowing the content gaps in Health Literacy.

Evaluate the article
(Compose a detailed evaluation of the article here, considering each of the key aspects listed above. Consider the guiding questions, and check out the examples of what a useful Wikipedia article evaluation looks like.

Wikipedia's Health Literacy article does a great job of identifying what the topic is about by reading the first sentence. The first paragraph could be better written to include the various definitions of health literacy that is alluded to. The article immediately goes into why there are disparities, which is a good strong start. However, the article could use some updates to the statistical information regarding findings on how many people are low health literate. I also think the article could use some updated citations to give it more reliability from 2020 to 2023, as there are thousands of peer-reviewed scholarly articles to cite from. A pro of the article highlights the many health literacy initiatives taking place in the United States and the UK. I believe Health Literacy Testing could use a section on its own. As I had no idea that there were so many different test to determine whether a person is health literate. The article could be organized in chronological order as opposed to subject matter. I feel there are sections missing. Marginalized groups are covered under "Patient Safety and Outcomes," but this section could definitely be expanded to cover many groups and subjects as they correlate to Health Literacy. This article meets Wikipedia's "neutral point of view" requirement. I only found two images in the article and they are not that good regarding being a visual description of what Health Literacy is. I may create something and upload it to WikiCommons. There is lots of work to be done regarding Health Literacy and Wikipedia is a great place to start. There needs to be more involvement across the board from all sectors of society to make Health Literacy accessible for everyone.