Health literacy

Health literacy addresses the environmental, political and social factors that determine health.

It influences individual lifestyle decisions, but also raises awareness of determinants of health and encourages actions that can have a positive influence on these determinants. Health literacy extends beyond the simple transmission of information. It incorporates the skills, knowledge, and power to be able to understand, acquire, and communicate health information in order to be able to make decisions that lead to positive health outcomes.

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Promoting health behaviours through trusted health information messengers

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Adaptation of the Health Literacy Survey Questionnaire (HLS19-Q) for Russian-Speaking Populations—International Collaboration across Germany, Israel, Kazakhstan, Russia, and the USA
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Rapid qualitative research to increase COVID-19 vaccination uptake: a research and intervention tool
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International Report on the Methodology, Results, and Recommendations of the European Health Literacy Population Survey 2019-2021 (HLS19) of M-POHL
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Investing in health literacy: What do we know about the co-benefits to the education sector of actions targeted at children and young people?
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Discussion paper on promoting, measuring and implementing health literacy: Implications for policy and practice in non-communicable disease prevention and control

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