Healthy People 2020 defines health literacy as the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make the appropriate health decisions. The field of Occupational therapy uses a client-centered approach and an essential part of this is health literacy. As an Occupational therapist, it is a practitioner's job to make sure that clients know and understand what is going on at all times during therapy. This means explaining everything from the diagnoses to the treatment while using plain, easy to understand language. This is important in Occupational therapy because if a client does not understand what is going on, then they are not able to be an active contributor in their recovery.