Literacy in the Adult Population Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• literacy: the ability to use printed and written information to function in society to achieve one’s goals and to develop one’s knowledge and potential
• illiteracy: being unable to read or write at all or having reading and writing skills at the fourth-grade level or below
• low literacy: the ability of adults to read, write, and comprehend information between the fifth- and eighth-grade levels of difficulty
• readability: the ease with which written or printed information can be read
• comprehension: the degree to which individuals understand what they have read
• reading: the process of transforming letters into words and being able to pronounce them correctly
• health literacy: the degree to which an individual has the capacity to obtain, communicate, process, and understand basic health information and services to make appropriate health decisions
• functional literacy: adults lack the fundamental reading, writing, and comprehension skills that are needed to perform the tasks of everyday life
• fog index: used in determining the readability of materials from grade 4 to college level
• smog formula: measures the readability of pems from grade 4 to college level based on the number of polysyllabic words within a set number of sentences
• wrat: a word recognition screening test
• realm: it measures a patient’s ability to read medical and health-related vocabulary