Health literacy in primary health care
Health literacy in primary health care
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DOI：
10.1071/py07020
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发表时间：
2007-08-01
影响因子：
1.3
通讯作者：
Hagger, Virginia
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作者：
Keleher, Helen;Hagger, Virginia
如果人们要成功地管理自己的健康，卫生知识是至关重要的。这就需要具备一系列有关卫生和卫生保健的技能和知识，包括发现、理解、解释和传达卫生信息，寻求适当的护理和作出关键的卫生决定。一个适当和普遍可及的初级卫生系统需要一个积极的议程，其基础是对解决低卫生素养问题的方法进行研究，而卫生保健提供者应警惕跨越所有年龄段的卫生素养普遍问题。7-他的文章回顾了自1990年代中期将卫生知识普及纳入澳大利亚的卫生目标和具体目标以来，澳大利亚在初级卫生保健领域的卫生知识普及方面取得的进展。对已发表的文献进行了数据库搜索，以确定澳大利亚现有的健康素养计划的例子。在精神卫生扫盲方面已经做了大量工作，并且正在与CALD社区一起研究慢性疾病自我管理，其中包括卫生扫盲。然而，研究广度的缺乏导致了知识基础的不完整。澳大利亚关于卫生扫盲研究的几项研究以及关于澳大利亚一般扫盲的数据表明，需要做更多的工作来增加我们关于卫生扫盲的知识库，以便开发适当的资源和工具来管理初级卫生机构中卫生扫盲水平低的问题。
Health literacy is fundamental if people are to successfully manage their own health. This requires a range of skills and knowledge about health and health care, including finding, understanding, interpreting and communicating health information, seeking of appropriate care and making critical health decisions. A primary health system that is appropriate and universally accessible requires an active agenda based on research of approaches to address low health literacy, while health care providers should be alert to the widespread problems of health literacy which span all age levels. 7-bis article reviews the progress made in Australia on health literacy in primary health care since health literacy was included in Australia's health goals and targets in the mid-1990s. A database search of published literature was conducted to identify existing examples of health literacy programs in Australia. Considerable work has been done on mental health literacy, and research into chronic disease self-management with CALD communities, which, includes health literacy, is under way. However, the lack of breadth in research has led to a knowledge base that is patchy. The few Australian studies located on health literacy research together with the data about general literacy in Australia suggests the need for much, more work to be done to increase our knowledge base about health literacy, in order to develop appropriate resources and tools to manage low health literacy in primary health settings.