Health Literacy

By addressing health literacy, we can improve health outcomes and reduce health inequalities globally.

Health literacy refers to the personal characteristics and social resources needed for individuals and communities to access, understand, appraise and use information and services to make decisions about health. Addressing health literacy is both an individual and systems level issue.

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West Midlands (UK) Tuberculosis sanatoria and public information. Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust. Source: Wellcome Collection.

The Epistemic Determinants of Health

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Front cover of report

Adaptation of the Health Literacy Survey Questionnaire (HLS19-Q) for Russian-Speaking Populations—International Collaboration across Germany, Israel, Kazakhstan, Russia, and the USA

Tailoring health interventions: behavioural and cultural insights for health

Promoting health literacy as poweful tool to address public health challenges

Promoting health literacy as poweful tool to address public health challenges

Noorihe Halimi, Sweden

Stories from the field - helping migrants to help themselves through health literacy

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Vaccines and Immunization

Mpox

Health Literacy

Migration

Environment and Health

Cancer

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