Abstract: Health information literacy refers a general ability displayed by which people in the process of demanding, obtaining and applying health information. The tool for the evaluation on health information literacy should contain several aspects of its connotation. At present, there are many methods for evaluating health information literacy at home and abroad, but a unified evaluation criterion has not been formed. This paper summarizes the methods for evaluating health information literacy established by domestic and foreign scholars, and puts forward some problems that need to be solved urgently in future in-depth studies on the issue.