Building and improving health literacy in the 'new normal' of health care : frameworks and actions

• Main Authors: Lega, Federico (Author), Kreutzer, Pia (Author)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2023.
• Series: European health management in transition.
• Subjects: Health literacy > Europe.; Communication in medicine.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781837533381
• DOI: 10.1108/9781837533367
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (156 pages).

Research shows that low health literacy (HL) is linked to poorer mental and physical health, increased health inequalities and less cost-effective health care systems. HL results in Europe indicate that almost 50% of the respondents in eight member states of the European Union displayed limited HL....