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ArticleHealth promotion international2025

Health literacy in Ireland: insights from rural and urban community perspectives.

Maeve Murray, Stephen Behan, Sarah Meegan, Wesley O'Brien, Craig Smith, Hannah Goss

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Article in Health promotion international, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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6 authors.

Maeve MurraySchool of Health and Human Performance, Polaris Building, Dublin City University, Glasnevin, Dublin 9, D09 V209, Ireland.
Stephen BehanSchool of Health and Human Performance, Polaris Building, Dublin City University, Glasnevin, Dublin 9, D09 V209, Ireland.
Sarah MeeganSchool of Health and Human Performance, Polaris Building, Dublin City University, Glasnevin, Dublin 9, D09 V209, Ireland.
Wesley O'BrienSchool of Education, Physical Education, Sports Studies and Arts Programme, 2 Lucan Place, Western road, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
Craig SmithSchool of Health and Human Performance, Polaris Building, Dublin City University, Glasnevin, Dublin 9, D09 V209, Ireland.
Hannah GossSchool of Health and Human Performance, Polaris Building, Dublin City University, Glasnevin, Dublin 9, D09 V209, Ireland.ORCID 0000-0002-4264-6673

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Sláintecare Healthy Communities
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Low levels of health literacy have been consistently found in Ireland. Little is known about the contextual development of health literacy in Irish community settings, especially those identified as most deprived where improved health literacy can support better health outcomes. Individual interviews and focus groups were conducted with 105 participants across one rural and one urban community in Ireland. Recordings were transcribed verbatim and analysed using reflexive thematic analysis. Accessing and understanding health information, health literacy changing over time, perceiving health literacy as an individual responsibility, and interpersonal and community influence on health literacy were common themes for participants across both settings. The themes of health access were discussed in both community settings but presented different challenges within the rural and urban communities of focus. Consequentially, rural-urban health literacy challenges should be contextualized. Equitable access to adequate healthcare is an emerging challenge observed in Irish rural communities and a systems approach should be employed to support overall development.

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Health LiteracyRural PopulationUrban PopulationAdultAgedFemaleFocus GroupsHealth Services AccessibilityHumansInterviews as TopicIrelandMaleMiddle AgedQualitative ResearchYoung Adultcommunitycultural contexthealth literacyqualitativerural–urban

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PMID40498772
PMCPMC12154202

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