Health literacy is defined as the capacity of individuals to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services necessary for making appropriate health decisions. AI generated definition based on: Journal of Pediatric Nursing, 2021 About this pageAdd to MendeleySet alert ...
Health literacy (HL) has been identified as an important and modifiable determinant of health. To succeed in promoting HL, it is crucial to evaluate interventions addressing HL using validated instruments. However, HL measurement is an under-researched a
Health Literacy Best Practices—and the Human Truths Behind Them A look at two key health literacy best practices, from a behavioral science perspective. Blog September 16, 2021 Multiple inflection points are colliding that will force action on drug pricing in the U.S. An update on the latest...
These results show that the amount of research in this field is increasing, seemingly indicating increasing interest in the field over recent years. Fig. 1: Publication and citation outputs. The annual number of the literature relating to published articles and citations in oral health literacy ...
Health literacy of people with intellectual disabilities: How meaningful is the social context for a target group-oriented model of health literacy? Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19, 16052. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] [PubMed] Akobirshoev, I.; Parish, S.L.; Mitra, M.; ...
Health literacy has begun to attract notice in many countries, including China, which is known for its rapidly aging population. Health literacy has been defined as “the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed ...
It is possible that, as a result of the reduced stigma and improved mental health literacy resulting from awareness efforts, individuals are now reporting and seeking help for mental health problems that always existed in previous generations but were not recognised or disclosed (Richter et al., ...
[88,93,94]. According to several studies, the degree to which patients are capable of processing the information rationally is influenced by their health literacy (the degree to which they have the capacity to obtain, process and understand the basic health information needed to make appropriate ...
Basically, giving people an increased mental health literacy of what’s normal, what isn’t, and how to pick up on the signs that intervention may be necessary. That way, so much disease burden can be avoided later in life. Harold Koplewicz:We also have to help parents become smarter. ...
Oral health literacy and knowledge Oral health literacy was defined in Healthy People 2000 as “The degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate oral health decisions” [123]. Therefore, the ability ...