Building and Improving Health Literacy in the 'New Normal' of Health Care: Frameworks and Actions

by Pia Kreutzer and Federico Lega

Research shows that low health literacy (HL) is linked to poorer mental and physical health, increased health inequalities and less cost-effective health care systems. HL results in Europe indicate that almost 50% of the respondents in eight member states of the European Union displayed limited HL. Reasons for this range from demographic to socioeconomic, health-related and economic relationships that need to be explored to understand why policymakers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1837533393
• ISBN13: 9781837533398
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.1"