The role of libraries in promoting health literacy for combating non-communicable diseases in Tanzania
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Date
2017
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International Journal of Development and Sustainability
Abstract
Health literacy is an important aspect to every individual in the society. This is due to the fact that a health literate
person understands his/her health status, take prevention and control measures of various diseases. The purpose of
this paper was to discuss how health literacy for prevention, control and treatment of non communicable diseases
can be conducted by libraries in Tanzania. The researcher reviewed several literatures and found out that libraries
have a big role to play to ensure that community recognize their information needs, search for relevant information
and make use of the information to make informed health decisions. The study concluded that because non
communicable diseases impose a double burden to the government and her people a call for immediate actions from
various stakeholders’ such as health libraries is required.
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Keywords
Health Literacy, Non-Communicable Diseases, Libraries, Tanzania