TY  - EDBOOK
AB  - Health literacy addresses a range of social dimensions of health, including knowledge, navigation and communication, as well as individual and organizational skills for accessing, understanding, evaluating and using information. Particularly over the past decade, health literacy has globally become a major public health concern as an asset for promoting health, wellbeing and sustainable development.

This comprehensive handbook provides an invaluable overview of current international thinking about health literacy, highlighting cutting edge research, policy and practice in the field. With a diverse team of contributors, the book addresses health literacy across the life-span and offers insights from different populations and settings. Providing a wide range of major findings, the book outlines current discourse in the field and examines necessary future dialogues and new perspectives.
DA  - 2019
KW  - Health Literacy
KW  - Digital Health Literacy
KW  - eHealth Literacy
KW  - Mental Health Literacy
KW  - Health Promotion
KW  - Public Health
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Education
KW  - Health Sociology
KW  - Health Behaviour
KW  - Intervention
KW  - Policy
KW  - School Health Promotion
KW  - Children
KW  - Adolescents
KW  - Adults
KW  - Health Professionals
KW  - Teachers
KW  - Empirical Research
KW  - Analytical Research
KW  - Health Equity
KW  - Health Inequality
LA  - eng
PY  - 2019
TI  - International Handbook of Health Literacy: Research, Practice and Policy across the Life-Span
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0070-pub-29401396
Y2  - 2024-11-22T03:43:48
ER  -