With unreliable health claims becoming increasingly widespread, improved health literacy could help children and adults make better choices about their health School lessons can successfully teach primary school children to critically evaluate health claims, and could help children make more informed decisions about health treatments and behaviours, according to a trial of over 10,000 children in 120 schools in Uganda published in The Lancet. A teacher, his class and the Kenyan members of the research team pose with a prototype of the children's book, in Kenya.
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