ReviewInternational journal of environmental research and public health2020
Health Literacy: From a Property of Individuals to One of Communities.
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- Seeking a deeper understanding of 'distributed health literacy': A systematic review.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2022Pooled it
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- Impact of functional, communicative, critical and distributed health literacy on self-management behaviors in chronic disease patients across socioeconomic groups.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Mechanism of health literacy impact on self-management behaviors in patients with chronic disease: a self-efficacy mediated model moderated by disease duration.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Validation of an Arabic tool for assessing vaccination literacy: A factor and Rasch analysis.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2024Article
- Equity in Cancer and Chronic Disease Prevention through a Multi-Pronged Network Intervention: Works-in-Progress.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Vaccination as a social practice: towards a definition of personal, community, population, and organizational vaccine literacy.BMC public health · 2023Review
- Housing and Food Insecurity, Health Literacy, and Maladaptive Coping Behaviors.Health literacy research and practice · 2022Article
- "Was Test Designed for Africans?" Health Literacy and African Immigrants.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2022Article
- The Role of Sources and Types of Health Information in Shaping Health Literacy in Cervical Cancer Screening Among African Immigrant Women: A Mixed-Methods Study.Health literacy research and practice · 2021Article
- Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Health Literacy Research Around the World: More Important Than Ever in a Time of COVID-19.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
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Abstract
Health literacy (HL) is increasingly hailed as a strategy to improve the control individuals have over their health. A central critic of HL intervention is its overemphasis on individual level factors, something recognised in the 2008 report of the Commission of Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) that recommended expanding the scope of HL to cover the SDoH. The objective of our study was to assess the extent to which recent progress on HL captures the need for collective action on the SDoH. We conducted a scoping review on PubMed looking for review papers published between 2013-2018 in English and French. Definitions of HL were analysed against two main dimensions (i.e., locus of change of HL strategies and foreseen outcome of HL improvements). Despite a number of authors calling for more research on HL interventions at the community level and an expansion of the definition to cover the SDoH, we found that the recommendation of the Commission has yet to be implemented. Even when the definitions include the capacities of individuals on distal determinants, both the locus of change and outcomes of HL improvement do not go beyond intra individual factors (knowledge, skills, etc.). It is noteworthy that communities were either framed as a setting outside of health care services or as an aggregate of individuals. We found no instance of HL intervention regarding communities as complex systems of actors sharing a common space and dynamic. We conclude by suggesting a new definition of HL and by drawing attention to the research gap in addressing the upstream SDoH through HL actions.
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