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Health literacy requires inclusive and equitable access to quality education and life-long learning. Health literacy is shaped by a wide range of societal factors and is, therefore, not the sole responsibility of individuals to develop and maintain.
13 Μαΐ 2020 · Health literacy is defined as the ability of an individual to obtain and translate knowledge and information in order to maintain and improve health in a way that is appropriate to the individual and system contexts.
Personal health literacy is associated with racial/ethnic minority status, age, poverty, health insurance coverage, educational attainment, language spoken before starting school, and self-reported health. 20 Strategies to increase personal health literacy disproportionately benefit populations that have been marginalized and therefore have the ...
Health literacy, then, is a shared function of cultural, social, and individual factors. Both the causes and the remedies for limited health literacy rest with our cultural and social framework, the health and education systems that serve it, and the interactions between these factors.
19 Ιουλ 2019 · literacy is associated with health behaviors and social factors among older adults: Results from the LifeLines cohort study’, Journal of Health Communication , 21, Suppl 2, 45-53.
Evidence of a social gradient in health literacy has been found in all reported national population surveys. Health literacy is a midstream determinant of health but not a panacea for addressing health inequities created by the maldistribution of opportunity and resources.
25 Ιαν 2012 · Health literate means placing one's own health and that of one's family and community into context, understanding which factors are influencing it, and knowing how to address them.
