How to approach outreach programs aimed at creating sensitization on cancer issues Health literacy levels mainly influence the way a particular population understands information thus affecting the success of any outreach program. Therefore, in areas where the highest education attained by individuals might be O levels, there will be a lot of difficulties in trying to disseminate information which was being used to educate college-level students on colorectal cancer. Thus, to efficiently reach members of an urban population, information will have to be watered down to ensure that the members can better understand the major concepts being passed along (Kodjo, 2009). Thus, due to high illiteracy levels, the outreach program might not be very successful. How the concepts of culturally competent care can be used to drive the outreach
