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ReviewFrontiers in public health2026

Nurses' contribution to organizational health literacy: a conceptual analysis informed by a focused mini-review.

Graeme Drummond Smith, Ann Bonner, Thi Thuy Ha Dinh, Hemamali Jagodage

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Review in Frontiers in public health, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 authors.

Graeme Drummond SmithS. K. Yee School of Health Sciences, Saint Francis University, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Ann BonnerSchool of Nursing and Midwifery, Griffith University, Nathan, QLD, Australia.
Thi Thuy Ha DinhMonash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Hemamali JagodageSchool of Nursing and Midwifery, Griffith University, Nathan, QLD, Australia.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Organizational health literacy (OHL) shifts attention from individuals' health literacy (HL) skills to the ways healthcare organizations make information, services and care pathways accessible, understandable and usable. Nurses are central to health-related communication, education, care coordination and quality improvement, yet their contribution to OHL remains under-documented. This conceptual article develops a nursing-informed perspective on OHL, supported by a focused mini-review of recent studies. The review was used to identify illustrative examples of how OHL has been examined in nursing-relevant contexts, rather than to provide a comprehensive evidence synthesis. We argue that nurses may contribute to OHL by supporting clear communication, care navigation, shared decision-making, co-design of information resources, quality improvement and implementation of HL-sensitive systems. Mapping Nutbeam's functional, interactive and critical levels of HL to organizational responsibilities highlights how nursing practice can contribute not only to individual understanding, but also to system-level responsiveness and equity. Strengthening nurse-led OHL will require leadership support, workforce development, use of assessment tools, consumer partnership, and integration into quality, safety and accreditation structures.

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Health LiteracyNurse's RoleHumanscommunicationhealthcarehealth literacynursingorganizational health literacysocial determinants of health

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PMID42846350
PMCPMC13643750

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