International Handbook of Health Literacy (eBook, ePUB)

Research, Practice and Policy across the Life-Span
Redaktion: Okan, Orkan; Sørensen, Kristine; Pinheiro, Paulo; Levin-Zamir, Diane; Bauer, Ullrich

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bristol University Press
• Seitenzahl: 768
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781447344537
• Artikelnr.: 57213527

Autorenporträt

Orkan Okan is Scientist at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Health Literacy Research based in the Faculty of Educational Science at Bielefeld University, Germany, with interest in health literacy in children and adolescents. Ullrich Bauer is Professor of Socialisation Research and Head of the Centre for Prevention and Intervention in Childhood and Adolescence and the Interdisciplinary Centre for Health Literacy Research at Bielefeld University, Germany. Diane Levin-Zamir is the National Director - Department of Health Promotion in Clalit Health Services, Associate Professor at the University of Haifa, School of Public Health, Israel, and Co-convener of IUHPE Global Working Group on Health Literacy. Paulo Pinheiro is Senior Researcher at the Faculty of Educational Science, Bielefeld University, Germany. Kristine Sørensen is Founding Director of the Global Health Literacy Academy. She is the first President of the International Health Literacy Association, Chair of Health Literacy Europe and Advisor to the WHO.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction to the Book; Part 1: Research into health literacy - An
overview of recent developments; Introduction to Part 1; The many facets of
health literacy: Scoping the current research of theories, concepts, and
models; 1. Defining health literacy: Exploring differences and
commonalities ~ Kristine Sørensen; 2. From Saranac Lake to Shanghai: A
brief history of health literacy ~ Orkan Okan; 3. Health literacy of
children and adolescents: Conceptual approaches and developmental
considerations ~Janine Bröder and Graca S. Carvalho; 4. The concept of
mental health literacy ~ Anthony F. Jorm; Measuring health literacy: What,
why and how?; 5. Measuring health literacy in adults: An overview and
discussion of current tools ~ Andrew Pleasant, Caitlin Maish, Catina
O'Leary and Richard Carmona; 6. Measuring children's health literacy:
Current approaches and challenges ~ Torsten M. Bollweg and Orkan Okan; 7.
Developing an instrument for measuring health literacy of adolescents:
Lessons learned ~ Christiane Firnges, Olga Domanska and Susanne Jordan; 8.
Measuring Health Literacy in Europe: Introducing the European Health
Literacy Survey Questionnaire (HLS-EU-Q) ~ Jürgen Pelikan, Kristin Ganahl,
Stephan van den Broucke and Kristine Sørensen; Health literacy, health
outcomes and health inequalities: Some empirical findings; 9. Health
literacy and health disparities: A global perspective ~ Sarah Mantwill and
Nicola Diviani; 10. Health literacy in later phases of life: Findings from
Germany and other countries ~ Dominique Vogt, Doris Schaeffer and Eva-Maria
Berens; 11. Critical health literacy for the marginalised: Empirical
findings ~ Susie Sykes and Jane Wills; 12. Health literacy and chronic
conditions: A life course perspective ~ Gillian Rowlands, Joanne Protheroe,
Luis Saboga-Nunes, Stephan Van den Broucke, Diane Levin-Zamir, and Orkan
Okan; 13. Health literacy research in the Nordic Countries ~ Kristine
Sørensen and Josefine Wangdahl; Part 2: Programmes and interventions to
promote health literacy; Introduction to Part 2; An overview of
interventions and programmes; 14. Improving health literacy in clinical and
community populations ~ Don Nutbeam and Bronwyn McGill; Interventions and
programmes for children and adolescents; 15. MEDIA PROTECT: A setting- and
parent-targeted intervention for a healthy childhood in the digital age ~
Paula Bleckmann, Hanna Schwendemann, Simone Flaig, Lea Kuntz, Anja Stiller,
Thomas Mößle and Eva-Maria Bitzer; 16. Using photovoice as a participatory
approach to promote youth health literacy ~ Paola Ardiles, Marlies
Casteleijn, Charlene King and Kristine Sørensen; 17. Mental health literacy
for refugee youth: A cultural approach ~ E. Anne Marshall and Deborah L.
Begoray; 18. Media health literacy, ehealth literacy and health behaviour
across the lifespan: Current progress and future challenges ~ Diane
Levin-Zamir and Isabella Bertschi; 19. School-based mental health literacy
interventions ~ Kathryn Cairns and Alyssia Rossetto; 20. Health literacy
interventions for children or adolescents: An overview and insights into
practical applications ~ Andrew Pleasant, Kristen Haven Griffin, Caitlin
Maish, Catina O'Leary and Richard Carmona; Interventions and programmes for
adults and older adults; 21. Health literacy interventions in the delivery
of pharmaceutical care ~ Laura J. Sahm, Suzanne McCarthy and Sarah
Marshall; 22. A stated preference discrete choice health literacy
intervention framework for the control of non-communicable diseases (NCDs)
in Africa: A qualitative perspectives for sustainable development ~ Kenneth
Yongabi Anchang and Theckla Kwangsa Mbunwe; 23. Occupational health
literacy: Healthy decisions at work ~ Marie Birk Jørgensen and Anne Konring
Larsen; 24. Mental health literacy interventions in adults ~ Anthony F.
Jorm; 25. An empirical perspective on the concept of mental health literacy
in the field of families with parental mental illness ~ Kathrin Schulze,
Patricia Wahl, Dirk Bruland, Stefanie Harsch and Michael Rehder; 26.
Putting the literacy back in health literacy: Interventions in U.S. adult
literacy and English language programmes ~ Julie McKinney and Maricel G.
Santos; Part 3: Policy programmes to promote health literacy; Introduction
to Part 3; 27. Health literacy policies: European perspectives ~ Iris van
der Heide, Monique Heijmans and Jany Rademakers; 28. Developing health
literacy policy in Scotland: A case study ~ Graham Kramer, Blythe
Robertson, Phyllis Easton and Andrew Pearson; 29. Health literacy policies:
National examples from Canada ~ Sandra Vamos, Irving Rootman, Linda Shohet
and Lorie Donelle; 30. Health literacy policies: National example from
Austria - a unique story and some lessons learned: key success factors and
caveats from an ongoing journey ~ Peter Nowak, Christina Dietscher and
Marlene Sator; 31. Health literacy policy in Australia: Past, present and
future directions ~ Anita Trezona, Emma Fitzsimon and Sarity Dodson; 32.
Health literacy policies: National examples from the United States ~ Julie
McKinney and R.V. Rikard; 33. Health literacy in New Zealand: A tale of
serendipity and indigenous health ~ Susan Reid and Carla White; 34. Health
literacy and the school curriculum: The example of Finland ~ Olli Paakkari
and Leena Paakkari; Part 4: Future dialogue and new perspectives;
Introduction to Part 4; 35. Health-literate healthcare organisations ~
Jürgen Pelikan and Christina Wieczorek; 36. Future avenues for health
literacy: Learning from literacy and literacy learning ~ Paulo Pinheiro;
37. The social embeddedness of health literacy ~ Ullrich Bauer; 38.
Children as active participants in health literacy research and
practice? From rhetoric to rights ~ Emma Bond and Vanessa Rawlings; 39.
Health literacy practices of adults in an avatar-based immersive social
virtual world: A sociocultural perspective of new media health literacies ~
Evelyn McElhinney; 40. Health literacy and participation in the healthcare
of adults: (In)compatible approaches? ~ Melanie Messer; 41. A lifespan
perspective on health literacy: Aging and end-of-life issues ~ Barbara
Kondilis; 42. Salutogenesis and health literacy: The health promotion
simplex! ~ Luis Saboga-Nunes, Uwe H. Bittlingmayer and Orkan Okan; 43.
Health literacy in a social context: A meta-narrative review ~ Ruth Pitt,
Terry Davis, Jennifer Manganello, Phillip Massey, Orkan Okan, Elizabeth
McFarlane, Opal Vanessa Buchthal, James Davis, Connie Arnold and Tetine
Sentell; 44. Health literacy for all? Inclusion as a serious challenge for
health literacy ~ Uwe H. Bittlingmayer and Diana Sahrai; 45. Capacity
building for health literacy ~ Stephan van den Broucke.