Health Literacy Development among People Experiencing Disadvantage
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Global Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2022) | Viewed by 308
Special Issue Editors
Interests: health promotion; health literacy; community-based participatory research; key populations; health equity; behavior and social change
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: health literacy methods; health systems research; epidemiology; measurement sciences; health equity development methodology across high-, middle-, and low-income settings
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The past decades have seen great advances in efforts to promote the wellbeing of populations. However, populations experiencing disadvantage, including those socially excluded, continue to be among the most affected by poor health outcomes. Health literacy is critical when working with people and communities experiencing disadvantage as they may face additional barriers to accessing and understanding health information and healthcare. Strength-based approaches are needed to enable people and communities to build on their own resources, knowledge, and social connectedness.
Health literacy development includes actions undertaken by health services, organizations, and policy makers to build the knowledge and confidence of individuals and communities, to access, understand, appraise, and use information about health and healthcare, for their health and well-being.
We welcome contributions to advance health literacy development. We appreciate works exploring contexts and processes through which people and communities access, learn, understand, and use health knowledge, and which influence their ability to make decisions. A social–ecological lens to identify and consider the different settings for health literacy actions, as well as reflexivity on enablers, potential barriers, and lessons learnt are valued. We encourage authors to submit manuscripts that present multidisciplinary qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods research, as well as theoretical, implementation, and evaluation studies.
Dr. Sónia Dias
Prof. Dr. Richard Osborne
Dr. Shandell Elmer
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- health literacy
- disadvantaged populations
- social vulnerability
- co-design
- health promotion
