Aim of the Master thesis is: To evaluate the education demand of the health literacy program in the Kaunas University Hospital. Goals of the paper are: 1. To reveal the interface between the knowledge and behavior of the patients treated in the Kaunas University Hospital. 2. To motivate the education demand of the patients’ health literacy. Research methodology: From December of 2005 to January of 2006 the autonomous survey of the Kaunas University Hospital respondents, using the standardized questionnaire, designed for the patients, was accomplished. 183 patients participated (96.3 % response rate) in the survey. The research material was processed using the SPSS statistical package of data analysis. Research results: The patients who had enough knowledge on the health maintenance (52,2 %) more valuated their health (76,1 %) (χ² = 18; LLS = 4; p = 0,001) as well as were careful about their health while were healthy (67 %) (χ² = 26,3; LLS = 4; p = 0,000), and when got sick have changed their lifestyle and behavior: have changed their nutrition habits (45,8%), have reduced their weight (44 %), tried to leave off smoking (32 %), tried to drink less alcohol (90 %). Because of an unsuitable communication of health specialists, using many complicated medical concepts the patents are not able to understand the provided health information (69,7 %) (χ² = 46; LLS = 4; p = 0,000), and therefore perform worse the medical prescription (16,2 %) (χ² = 19,2; LLS = 4; p = 0,001)... [to full text]