A nurse instructor explains that health-care professionals should assess their patients' abilities to comprehend and understand basic health-care information, and use that information to make good decisions about their health
This type of assessment is known as
1. High-level wellness assessment.
2. The wellness-illness continuum.
3. Fitzpatrick's rhythm model.
4. Health literacy.
ANS: 4
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