The Many Health Literacies: Advancing Research or Fragmentation?
The Many Health Literacies: Advancing Research or Fragmentation?
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DOI：
10.1080/10410236.2015.1037422
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发表时间：
2015-12-02
影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
Guadagno, Marie
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作者：
Mackert, Michael;Champlin, Sara;Guadagno, Marie
健康素养是个人获取、处理、理解和交流做出明智的健康决策所需的健康相关信息的程度，是患者健康结果和由此产生的医疗保健成本的重要因素。由于其在许多健康领域的重要性，近年来人们特别关注健康素养的研究和衡量；然而，该领域对于如何定义和衡量健康素养缺乏共识。因此，存在许多健康素养的定义和衡量标准。这种碎片化和不一致给跨卫生领域和领域的健康素养概念化、衡量和理解造成了障碍。定向文献检索揭示了大量关于健康素养的工作；然而，研究结果往往强调特定健康领域、人群、背景和语言的健康素养，这使得比较不同研究的结果变得困难。虽然人们认识到应该改进健康素养的衡量，但重要的是要考虑从一般健康素养重点中可以获得什么以及如何跨领域应用这一点。
Health literacy is the degree to which individuals can obtain, process, understand, and communicate about health-related information needed to make informed health decisions and is an important factor in patient health outcomes and resulting health care costs. Because of its importance across many areas of health, specific attention has been given to studying and measuring health literacy in recent years; however, the field lacks consensus on how health literacy should be defined and measured. As a result, numerous definitions and measures of health literacy exist. This fragmentation and inconsistency creates a barrier to conceptualizing, measuring, and understanding health literacy across health domains and fields. A directed literature search reveals a substantial body of work on health literacy; however, findings from studies often emphasize health literacy within specific health domains, populations, contexts, and languages, which makes the comparison of findings across studies difficult. While there is recognition that the measurement of health literacy should be improved, it is important to take into consideration what can be gained from a general health literacy focus and how this could be applied across domains.