International Handbook of Health Literacy: Research, Practice and Policy across the Life-Span. 2019
Inhalt
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of figures, tables and boxes
- Notes on contributors
- Introduction
- Part 1: Research into health literacy: An overview of recent developments
- The many facets of health literacy: Scoping the current research of theories, concepts and models
- 1. Defining health literacy: Exploring differences and commonalities
- 2. From Saranac Lake to Shanghai: A brief history of health literacy
- 3. Health literacy of children and adolescents: Conceptual approaches and developmental considerations
- 4. The concept of mental health literacy
- Measuring health literacy: What, why and how?
- 5. Measuring health literacy in adults: An overview and discussion of current tools
- 6. Measuring children’s health literacy: Current approaches and challenges
- 7. Developing an instrument for measuring the health literacy of adolescents: Lessons learned
- 8. Measuring health literacy in Europe: Introducing the European Health Literacy Survey Questionnaire (HLS-EU-Q)
- Health literacy, health outcomes and health inequalities: Some empirical findings
- 9. Health literacy and health disparities: A global perspective
- 10. Health literacy in later phases of life: Findings from Germany and other countries
- 11. Critical health literacy for the marginalised: Empirical findings
- 12. Health literacy and chronic conditions: A life course perspective
- 13. Health literacy research in the Nordic Countries
- Part 2: Programmes and interventions to promote health literacy
- An overview of interventions and programmes
- Interventions and programmes for children and adolescence
- 15. MEDIA PROTECT: A setting- and parent-targeted intervention for a healthy childhood in the digital age
- 16. Using Photovoice as a participatory approach to promote youth health literacy
- 17. Mental health literacy for refugee youth: A cultural approach
- 18. Media health literacy, eHealth literacy and health behaviour across the lifespan: Current progress and future challenges
- 19. School-based mental health literacy interventions
- 20. Health literacy interventions for children or adolescents: An overview and insights into practical applications
- Interventions and programmes for adults and older adults
- 21. Health literacy interventions in the delivery of pharmaceutical care
- 22. A stated preference discrete choice health literacy intervention framework for the control of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in Africa
- 23. Occupational health literacy: Healthy decisions at work
- 24. Mental health literacy interventions in adults
- 25. An empirical perspective on the concept of mental health literacy in the field of families with parental mental illness
- 26. Putting the literacy back into health literacy: Interventions in US adult literacy and English language programmes
- Part 3: Policy programmes to promote health literacy
- 27. Health literacy policies: European perspectives
- 28. Developing health literacy policy in Scotland: A case study
- 29. Health literacy policies: National examples from Canada
- 30. Health literacy policies: National example from Austria – A unique story and some lessons learned from an ongoing journey
- 31. Health literacy policy in Australia: Past, present and future directions
- 32. Health literacy policies: National examples from the United States
- 33. Health literacy in New Zealand: A tale of serendipity and indigenous health
- 34. Health literacy and the school curriculum: The example of Finland
- Part 4: Future dialogue and new perspectives
- 35. Health-literate healthcare organisations
- 36. Future avenues for health literacy: Learning from literacy and literacy learning
- 37. The social embeddedness of health literacy
- 38. Children as active participants in health literacy research and practice? From rhetoric to rights
- 39. Health literacy practices of adults in an avatar-based immersive social virtual world: A sociocultural perspective of new media health literacies
- 40. Health literacy and participation in the healthcare of adults: (In)compatible approaches?
- 41. A lifespan perspective on health literacy: Ageing and end-of-life issues
- 42. Salutogenesis and health literacy: The health promotion simplex!
- 43. Health literacy in a social context: A meta-narrative review
- 44. Health literacy for all? Inclusion as a serious challenge for health literacy: The case of disability
- 45. Capacity building for health literacy
- Index
- Back cover