Health Literacy: The Common Denominator of Healthcare Progress

Pitts, Peter J.; Freeman, Emily

doi:10.1007/s40271-021-00537-9

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“…The better health literacy, the better the perspective on preventing disease Health literacy is not passive but a form of participatory ability and foundation in positive behaviour change. Individuals with an adequate level of health literacy can take responsibility for their health and the well-being of their families and communities (Pitts & Freeman, 2021). Therefore, efforts to strengthen health literacy can enhance primary health conditions at the individual and community levels.…”

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Conceptualization of Health Literacy from a Nursing Perspective

Wilandika

Pandin

2022

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Health as an inseparable part of human beings needs to be maintained to achieve a complete human health degree. The role of health literacy in attaining optimum health is significant. When associated with nursing, health literacy must be interpreted as a part of the role and function of nursing. However, to understand health literacy, it is necessary to study it from the aspect of scientific formation itself and a nursing perspective. This review proposes an alternative conceptualization of health literacy from a nursing perspective. This review used an integrative search through four databases: ScienceDirect, ProQuest, SAGE Journal, and Google Scholar. Search using various combinations of keywords with the help of Boolean operators, including: health literacy, nursing perspective, nursing, and conceptualization combined as MESH terms. The inclusion criteria are peer-reviewed articles in English that discuss health literacy and nursing perspective. Articles published within the last six years (2017-2022). Research such as literature reviews, dissertations, editorials, commentaries, and other expert opinions are excluded. Ten articles were considered in this literature review. We describe the conceptualization of health literacy from the nurse’s point of view, the predictors that influence it, the dimensions surrounding health literacy, the implication of health literacy, and how nurses will participate in supporting this health literacy. In the end, this conceptualization will be used as an illustration material to integrate the concept of health literacy into various problems that become nursing tasks.

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Conceptualization of Health Literacy from a Nursing Perspective

Wilandika

Pandin

2022

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“…Organizational health literacy is the degree to which organizations equitably enable individuals to find, understand, and use information and services to inform health-related decisions and actions for themselves and others (22).…”

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“…With Covid-19 fresh in mind, Pitts and Freeman (22) took the discussion of being health illiterate to its limit by highlighting that insufficient health literacy could even be considered deadly. By not understanding the value of social distancing, not understanding the risks of using hydroxychloroquine internally, and not being able to balance the pros and cons about vaccines, having insufficient health literacy could cause death.…”

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Health Care Utilization among Young Adults in Primary and Emergency Health Care : The Need for Support, the Capacity to Support, and the Communication in between

Viktorsson

2022

Linköping University Medical Dissertations

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With a bachelor degree in public health from the University of Halmstad, my background is more within behavioural than medical science. Doing my two-year master's degree at the Medical Faculty at Linköping University had me approaching health care settings and gaining a more in-depth medical understanding. During that time, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, registered nurses, speech therapists, and public health scientists integrated and worked together in different health care setting scenarios. The possibility to study with other professions added many new insights and made me realize the need for public health within health care organizations. From a public health perspective, a salutogenic approach to the patient was often put aside for a more pathogenic approach. I experienced patient autonomy, self-worth, and empowerment sometimes being put aside to prioritize diagnosis, sickness, and their possible effects on the body. Initially, I doubted myself and thought of my public health education as a possible weakness, fearing being questioned due to having scarce knowledge about health care. I lacked specific insights and preconceptions about health care and working directly with patients. But as time went on, I came to realize that my background could and should be considered as adding perspective to research in health care settings, contributing with salutogenic and preventive approaches.Lastly, readers should be reminded that this thesis was initiated before online doctors became widespread in Sweden. When I carried out the first interviews with young adults, several of them had not heard about the possibility of visiting doctors online. That is also one of the reasons why online doctors were not explicitly included in this thesis, though they are implicitly represented in the fourth and last study when analysing health care information online. Contents

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“…We read with great interest the commentary “Health Literacy: The Common Denominator of Healthcare Progress” by Pitts and Freeman in the September 2021 issue of The Patient [ 1 ]. We applaud the authors for highlighting the important, but often ignored, impact of health literacy on health outcomes.…”

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