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But much worse than this, these individuals will have an exceptionally difficult time managing their own health. Many of these illiterate individuals avoid doctor's offices because they are intimidated by the seemingly endless paperwork. Rather than take preventative care of their own bodies, they would rather just go to the emergency room as necessary because there someone asks them questions and fills out the forms (Marcus, 2006). Because they may be ashamed to admit they are illiterate, many will hide the fact from their healthcare practitioners, a tendency that could well exasperate their health problems and make it more difficult for them to ever get better.
If a doctor isn't aware that his patient is illiterate and simply hands out instructions for how to take certain medications, or passes along some documents that describe the nature of the patient's health condition, the ashamed illiterate may simply pretend to be able to understand this information....
But because he cannot understand it, it will taken home and promptly ignored. If that information contains facts or procedures that are crucial to improving the illiterate's health, they will have no effect. The illiterate individual will soon be back in the hospital because he was unable to understand the information given to him and apply it in a way that would have improved the condition of his own health. Because the elderly in particular are more likely to suffer from problematic health, the issue of illiteracy can actually undermine their chances of maintaining good health throughout old age. The social effects of illiteracy are myriad, but it is important to understand that illiteracy can have immediate and dramatic negative consequences for those individuals who fall into this category.
References
Marcus, E.N. (2006, July 27). The silent epidemic -- the health effects of illiteracy. The New England Journal of Medicine, 355(4), pp. 339-341.
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