Health Literacy in Context

Don Nutbeam, Diane Levin-Zamir and Gill Rowlands
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Don Nutbeam: School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney 2006, Australia
Diane Levin-Zamir: Department of Health Education and Promotion, Clalit Health Services, Tel Aviv 62098, Israel
Gill Rowlands: Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University, Newcastle NE1 7RU, UK

IJERPH, 2018, vol. 15, issue 12, 1-3

Abstract: Health literacy has been defined and conceptualized in multiple ways, but almost all definitions have similar core elements describing the personal skills that enable individuals to obtain, understand, and use information to make decisions and take actions that will have an impact on their health. [...]

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Date: 2018
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