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Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Health literacy addresses a range of social dimensions of health, including knowledge, navigation and communication, as well as individual and organizational skills for accessing, understanding, evaluating and using information. Particularly over the past decade, health literacy has globally become a major public health concern as an asset for promoting health, wellbeing and sustainable development.
This comprehensive handbook provides an invaluable overview of current international thinking about health literacy, highlighting cutting edge research, policy and practice in the field. With a diverse team of contributors, the book addresses health literacy across the life-span and offers insights from different populations and settings. Providing a wide range of major findings, the book outlines current discourse in the field and examines necessary future dialogues and new perspectives.

Contents:

Introduction to the Book;
Part 1: Research into health literacy - An overview of recent developments;
Introduction to Part 1;
The many facets of health literacy: Scoping the current research of theories, concepts, and models;
1. Defining health literacy: Exploring differences and commonalities ~ Kristine Sorensen;
2. From Saranac Lake to Shanghai: A brief history of health literacy ~ Orkan Okan;
3. Health literacy of children and adolescents: Conceptual approaches and developmental considerations ~Janine Broeder and Graca S. Carvalho;
4. The concept of mental health literacy ~ Anthony F. Jorm;
Measuring health literacy: What, why and how?;
5. Measuring health literacy in adults: An overview and discussion of current tools ~ Andrew Pleasant, Caitlin Maish, Catina O'Leary and Richard Carmona;
6. Measuring children's health literacy: Current approaches and challenges ~ Torsten M. Bollweg and Orkan Okan;
7. Developing an instrument for measuring health literacy of adolescents: Lessons learned ~ Christiane Firnges, Olga Domanska and Susanne Jordan;
8. Measuring Health Literacy in Europe: Introducing the European Health Literacy Survey Questionnaire (HLS-EU-Q) ~ Jurgen Pelikan, Kristin Ganahl, Stephan van den Broucke and Kristine Sorensen;
Health literacy, health outcomes and health inequalities: Some empirical findings;
9. Health literacy and health disparities: A global perspective ~ Sarah Mantwill and Nicola Diviani;
10. Health literacy in later phases of life: Findings from Germany and other countries ~ Dominique Vogt, Doris Schaeffer and Eva-Maria Berens;
11. Critical health literacy for the marginalised: Empirical findings ~ Susie Sykes and Jane Wills;
12. Health literacy and chronic conditions: A life course perspective ~ Gillian Rowlands, Joanne Protheroe, Luis Saboga-Nunes, Stephan Van den Broucke, Diane Levin-Zamir, and Orkan Okan;
13. Health literacy research in the Nordic Countries ~ Kristine Sorensen and Josefine Wangdahl;
Part 2: Programmes and interventions to promote health literacy;
Introduction to Part 2;
An overview of interventions and programmes;
14. Improving health literacy in clinical and community populations ~ Don Nutbeam and Bronwyn McGill;
Interventions and programmes for children and adolescents;
15. MEDIA PROTECT: A setting- and parent-targeted intervention for a healthy childhood in the digital age ~ Paula Bleckmann, Hanna Schwendemann, Simone Flaig, Lea Kuntz, Anja Stiller, Thomas Moessle and Eva-Maria Bitzer;
16. Using photovoice as a participatory approach to promote youth health literacy ~ Paola Ardiles, Marlies Casteleijn, Charlene King and Kristine Sorensen;
17. Mental health literacy for refugee youth: A cultural approach ~ E. Anne Marshall and Deborah L. Begoray;
18. Media health literacy, ehealth literacy and health behaviour across the lifespan: Current progress and future challenges ~ Diane Levin-Zamir and Isabella Bertschi;
19. School-based mental health literacy interventions ~ Kathryn Cairns and Alyssia Rossetto;
20. Health literacy interventions for children or adolescents: An overview and insights into practical applications ~ Andrew Pleasant, Kristen Haven Griffin, Caitlin Maish, Catina O'Leary and Richard Carmona;
Interventions and programmes for adults and older adults;
21. Health literacy interventions in the delivery of pharmaceutical care ~ Laura J. Sahm, Suzanne McCarthy and Sarah Marshall;
22. A stated preference discrete choice health literacy intervention framework for the control of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in Africa: A qualitative perspectives for sustainable development ~ Kenneth Yongabi Anchang and Theckla Kwangsa Mbunwe;
23. Occupational health literacy: Healthy decisions at work ~ Marie Birk Jorgensen and Anne Konring Larsen;
24. Mental health literacy interventions in adults ~ Anthony F. Jorm;
25. An empirical perspective on the concept of mental health literacy in the field of families with parental mental illness ~ Kathrin Schulze, Patricia Wahl, Dirk Bruland, Stefanie Harsch and Michael Rehder;
26. Putting the literacy back in health literacy: Interventions in U.S. adult literacy and English language programmes ~ Julie McKinney and Maricel G. Santos;
Part 3: Policy programmes to promote health literacy;
Introduction to Part 3;
27. Health literacy policies: European perspectives ~ Iris van der Heide, Monique Heijmans and Jany Rademakers;
28. Developing health literacy policy in Scotland: A case study ~ Graham Kramer, Blythe Robertson, Phyllis Easton and Andrew Pearson;
29. Health literacy policies: National examples from Canada ~ Sandra Vamos, Irving Rootman, Linda Shohet and Lorie Donelle;
30. Health literacy policies: National example from Austria - a unique story and some lessons learned: key success factors and caveats from an ongoing journey ~ Peter Nowak, Christina Dietscher and Marlene Sator;
31. Health literacy policy in Australia: Past, present and future directions ~ Anita Trezona, Emma Fitzsimon and Sarity Dodson;
32. Health literacy policies: National examples from the United States ~ Julie McKinney and R.V. Rikard;
33. Health literacy in New Zealand: A tale of serendipity and indigenous health ~ Susan Reid and Carla White;
34. Health literacy and the school curriculum: The example of Finland ~ Olli Paakkari and Leena Paakkari;
Part 4: Future dialogue and new perspectives;
Introduction to Part 4;
35. Health-literate healthcare organisations ~ Jurgen Pelikan and Christina Wieczorek;
36. Future avenues for health literacy: Learning from literacy and literacy learning ~ Paulo Pinheiro;
37. The social embeddedness of health literacy ~ Ullrich Bauer;
38. Children as active participants in health literacy research and practice? From rhetoric to rights ~ Emma Bond and Vanessa Rawlings;
39. Health literacy practices of adults in an avatar-based immersive social virtual world: A sociocultural perspective of new media health literacies ~ Evelyn McElhinney;
40. Health literacy and participation in the healthcare of adults: (In)compatible approaches? ~ Melanie Messer;
41. A lifespan perspective on health literacy: Aging and end-of-life issues ~ Barbara Kondilis;
42. Salutogenesis and health literacy: The health promotion simplex! ~ Luis Saboga-Nunes, Uwe H. Bittlingmayer and Orkan Okan;
43. Health literacy in a social context: A meta-narrative review ~ Ruth Pitt, Terry Davis, Jennifer Manganello, Phillip Massey, Orkan Okan, Elizabeth McFarlane, Opal Vanessa Buchthal, James Davis, Connie Arnold and Tetine Sentell;
44. Health literacy for all? Inclusion as a serious challenge for health literacy ~ Uwe H. Bittlingmayer and Diana Sahrai;
45. Capacity building for health literacy ~ Stephan van den Broucke.