Health literacy and participation in the healthcare of adults: (In)compatible approaches?

Abstract

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. 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