International Handbook of Health Literacy: Research, Practice and Policy across the Life-Span

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Titel: International Handbook of Health Literacy : Research, Practice and Policy across the Life-Span

Enthält: Front Matter
Contents
List of figures, tables and boxes
Notes on contributors
Introduction
Research Into Health Literacy: An overview of recent developments
Defining health literacy: Exploring differences and commonalities
From Saranac Lake to Shanghai: A brief history of health literacy
Health literacy of children and adolescents: Conceptual approaches and developmental considerations
The concept of mental health literacy
Measuring health literacy in adults: An overview and discussion of current tools
Measuring children's health literacy: Current approaches and challenges
Developing an instrument for measuring the health literacy of adolescents: Lessons learned
Measuring health literacy in Europe: Introducing the European Health Literacy Survey Questionnaire (HLS-EU-Q)
Health literacy and health disparities: A global perspective
Health literacy in later phases of life: Findings from Germany and other countries
Critical health literacy for the marginalised: Empirical findings
Health literacy and chronic conditions: A life course perspective
Health literacy research in the Nordic countries
Programmes and interventions to promote health literacy
Improving health literacy in clinical and community populations
MEDIA PROTECT: A setting- and parent-targeted intervention for a healthy childhood in the digital age
Using Photovoice as a participatory approach to promote youth health literacy
Mental health literacy for refugee youth: A cultural approach
Media health literacy, eHealth literacy and health behaviour across the lifespan: Current progress and future challenges
School-based mental health literacy interventions
Health literacy interventions for children or adolescents: An overview and insights into practical applications
Health literacy interventions in the delivery of pharmaceutical care
A stated preference discrete choice health literacy intervention framework for the control of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in Africa
Occupational health literacy: Healthy decisions at work
Mental health literacy interventions in adults
An empirical perspective on the concept of mental health literacy in the field of families with parental mental illness
Putting the literacy back into health literacy: Interventions in US adult literacy and English language programmes
Policy programmes to promote health literacy
Health literacy policies: European perspectives
Developing health literacy policy in Scotland: A case study
Health literacy policies: National examples from Canada
Health literacy policies: National example from Austria - A unique story and some lessons learned from an ongoing journey
Health literacy policy in Australia: Past, present and future directions
Health literacy policies: National examples from the United States
Health literacy in New Zealand: A tale of serendipity and indigenous health
Health literacy and the school curriculum: The example of Finland
Future dialogue and new perspectives
Health-literate healthcare organisations
Future avenues for health literacy: Learning from literacy and literacy learning
The social embeddedness of health literacy
Children as active participants in health literacy research and practice? From rhetoric to rights
Health literacy practices of adults in an avatar-based immersive social virtual world: A sociocultural perspective of new media health literacies
Health literacy and participation in the healthcare of adults: (In)compatible approaches?
A lifespan perspective on health literacy: Ageing and end-of-life issues
Salutogenesis and health literacy: The health promotion simplex!
Health literacy in a social context: A meta-narrative review
Health literacy for all? Inclusion as a serious challenge for health literacy: The case of disability
Capacity building for health literacy
Index

Beteiligte: Anchang, Kenneth Yongabi [Mitwirkende:r]; Ardiles, Paola [Mitwirkende:r]; Arnold, Connie [Mitwirkende:r]; Bauer, Ullrich [Mitwirkende:r]; Bauer, Ullrich [Herausgeber:in]; Begoray, Deborah L. [Mitwirkende:r]; Berens, Eva-Maria [Mitwirkende:r]; Bertschi, Isabella [Mitwirkende:r]; Bittlingmayer, Uwe H. [Mitwirkende:r]; Bitzer, Eva Maria [Mitwirkende:r]; Black, Charlene [Mitwirkende:r]; Bleckmann, Paula [Mitwirkende:r]; Bollweg, Torsten Michael [Mitwirkende:r]; Bond, Emma [Mitwirkende:r]; Bruland, Dirk [Mitwirkende:r]; Bröder, Janine [Mitwirkende:r]; Buchthal, Opal Vanessa [Mitwirkende:r]; Cairns, Kathryn [Mitwirkende:r]; Carmona, Richard [Mitwirkende:r]; Carvalho, Graça S. [Mitwirkende:r]; Casteleijn, Marlies [Mitwirkende:r]; Davis, James [Mitwirkende:r]; Davis, Terry [Mitwirkende:r]; Dietscher, Christina [Mitwirkende:r]; Diviani, Nicola [Mitwirkende:r]; Dodson, Sarity [Mitwirkende:r]; Domanska, Olga [Mitwirkende:r]; Donelle, Lorie [Mitwirkende:r]; Easton, Phyllis [Mitwirkende:r]; Firnges, Christiane [Mitwirkende:r]; Fitzsimon, Emma [Mitwirkende:r]; Flaig, Simone [Mitwirkende:r]; Ganahl, Kristin [Mitwirkende:r]; Griffin, Kristen Haven [Mitwirkende:r]; Harsch, Stefanie [Mitwirkende:r]; Heijmans, Monique [Mitwirkende:r]; Jordan, Susanne [Mitwirkende:r]; Jorm, Anthony F. [Mitwirkende:r]; Jørgensen, Marie Birk [Mitwirkende:r]; Kondilis, Barbara K. [Mitwirkende:r]; Kramer, Graham [Mitwirkende:r]; Kuntz, Lea [Mitwirkende:r]; Larsen, Anne Konring [Mitwirkende:r]; Levin-Zamir, Diane [Mitwirkende:r]; Levin-Zamir, Diane [Herausgeber:in]; Maish, Caitlin [Mitwirkende:r]; Manganello, Jennifer [Mitwirkende:r]; Mantwill, Sarah [Mitwirkende:r]; Marshall, E. Anne [Mitwirkende:r]; Marshall, Sarah [Mitwirkende:r]; Massey, Phillip [Mitwirkende:r]; Mbunwe, Theckla Kwangsa [Mitwirkende:r]; McCarthy, Suzanne [Mitwirkende:r]; McElhinney, Evelyn [Mitwirkende:r]; McFarlane, Elizabeth [Mitwirkende:r]; McGill, Bronwyn [Mitwirkende:r]; McKinney, Julie [Mitwirkende:r]; Messer, Melanie [Mitwirkende:r]; Mößle, Thomas [Mitwirkende:r]; Nowak, Peter [Mitwirkende:r]; Nutbeam, Don [Mitwirkende:r]; Okan, Orkan [Mitwirkende:r]; Okan, Orkan [Herausgeber:in]; O'Leary, Catina [Mitwirkende:r]; Paakkari, Leena [Mitwirkende:r]; Paakkari, Olli [Mitwirkende:r]; Pearson, Andrew [Mitwirkende:r]; Pelikan, Jürgen M. [Mitwirkende:r]; Pinheiro, Paulo [Mitwirkende:r]; Pinheiro, Paulo [Herausgeber:in]; Pitt, Ruth [Mitwirkende:r]; Pleasant, Andrew [Mitwirkende:r]; Protheroe, Joanne [Mitwirkende:r]; Rademakers, Jany [Mitwirkende:r]; Rawlings, Vanessa [Mitwirkende:r]; Rehder, Michael [Mitwirkende:r]; Reid, Susan [Mitwirkende:r]; Rikard, R. V. [Mitwirkende:r]; Robertson, Blythe [Mitwirkende:r]; Rootman, Irving [Mitwirkende:r]; Rossetto, Alyssia [Mitwirkende:r]; Rowlands, Gill [Mitwirkende:r]; Saboga-Nunes, Luis [Mitwirkende:r]; Sahm, Laura J. [Mitwirkende:r]; Sahrai, Diana [Mitwirkende:r]; Santos, Maricel G. [Mitwirkende:r]; Sator, Marlene [Mitwirkende:r]; Schaeffer, Doris [Mitwirkende:r]; Schulze, Kathrin [Mitwirkende:r]; Schwendemann, Hanna [Mitwirkende:r]; Sentell, Tetine [Mitwirkende:r]; Shohet, Linda [Mitwirkende:r]; Stiller, Anja [Mitwirkende:r]; Sykes, Susie [Mitwirkende:r]; Sørensen, Kristine [Mitwirkende:r]; Sørensen, Kristine [Herausgeber:in]; Trezona, Anita [Mitwirkende:r]; Vamos, Sandra [Mitwirkende:r]; Van den Broucke, Stephan [Mitwirkende:r]; Vogt, Dominique [Mitwirkende:r]; Wahl, Patricia [Mitwirkende:r]; White, Carla [Mitwirkende:r]; Wills, Jane [Mitwirkende:r]; Wångdahl, Josefin [Mitwirkende:r]; van der Heide, Iris [Mitwirkende:r]

Erschienen: Bristol: Policy Press, 2019

Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (768 p.); 28 Black and White

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.56687/9781447344520

ISBN: 9781447344520

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Schlagwörter: Medicine (General) ; Health literacy ; MEDICAL / Health Policy

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Anmerkungen: In English

Beschreibung: Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. 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

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