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Keywords: health literacy, public health awareness, public health. Introduction
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health literacy, public health awareness, public health. Introduction: Nowadays, people need to actively take care of their health and make informed decisions. This requires accessible, easy-to-understand and reliable health information that is also adapted to people's needs. Accordingly, there is the acquisition of the necessary knowledge, motivation and skills, including access to health information, and thus understanding and evaluating it, designated as health literacy. Personal health literacy is therefore "the extent to which people can find, understand and use information and services to inform health-related decisions and actions for themselves and others". In this context, it should be emphasised that health literacy is always a matter of content and context. This means that the ability to work with health information depends on the context in which it is to be applied to health-related decision-making. Priorities are changing and consequently, people are increasingly taking responsibility for their health, as a consequence, health literacy is becoming an increasingly timely topic. Studies by Kristin Hjorthaug Urstad., Randi Andenaes., and Astrid K. Wahl et all (2020) have demonstrated an association between low functional and poor health-related outcomes, such as increased hospital admissions and re-hospitalisations, lower participation in preventive measures, worse self-management of chronic conditions, worse disease outcomes, lower functional status and increased mortality. Materials and methods: We searched and analyzed scientific articles in the Pubmed, Wiley, Elsevier and Springer Link database using the keywords health literacy, public health awareness, public health, health promotion. Search depth 5 years. The total volume of analyzed scientific articles is 55, of which 28 were selected for writing this literature review. Today, the World Health Organization (WHO) defines health literacy as the personal characteristics and social resources that individuals and communities need to access, understand, evaluate and use the information and services needed to make health-related decisions. To develop health literacy measures and generally assess the impact of demographic, socio-economic and behavioural determinants on health literacy in the world. Today, people need to actively take care of their health and make informed decisions. This requires accessible, easy-to-understand and reliable health information, which is also adapted to people's needs. The relevant necessary knowledge, motivation and skills, including accessing, understanding and evaluating health information, have been conceptualised as health literacy. Consequently, personal health literacy is "the extent to which people are able to find, understand and use information and services to inform health-related decisions and actions for themselves and others". In this context, it should be emphasised that health literacy is always substantive and context-specific. This means that the ability to handle health information depends on the context in which they are to be applied to make health-related decisions. 87 People are increasingly being given responsibility for their health and, consequently, health literacy (HL) is becoming a topic of growing interest. Overseas studies have demonstrated an association between low functional health literacy and poor health-related outcomes, such as increased hospital admissions and re- hospitalisations, lower participation in preventive measures, poorer self- management of chronic conditions, poorer disease outcomes, lower functional status and increased mortality. We know that limited literacy skills are often associated with poor understanding and management of health conditions, underuse of preventive health services, higher rates of hospital admissions for preventable conditions and poor overall health status [6]. Populations with low health literacy are more likely to have difficulties in understanding different types of health information, both in assessing its reliability and source, difficulties in understanding medical language and professional terms, and difficulties in acquiring skills to control their health. Limited literacy skills are known to be often associated with poor understanding and management of health conditions, underutilization of preventive health services, higher rates of hospitalizations for preventable conditions and poor overall health. Evidence of a social gradient in health literacy has been found in all published national population-based surveys. Health literacy is an intermediate determinant of health, but not a panacea for addressing health inequalities caused by the misallocation of opportunities and resources. жүктеу/скачать 4,77 Mb. Достарыңызбен бөлісу:
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