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Wind K, Poland B, HakemZadeh F, Jackson S, Tomlinson G, Jadad A. Using self-reported health as a social determinants of health outcome: a scoping review of reviews. Health Promot Int 2023; 38:daad165. [PMID: 38041807 DOI: 10.1093/heapro/daad165] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/04/2023] Open
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Reducing disease prevalence rather than promoting health has long been the objective of significant population health initiatives, such as the social determinants of health (SDH) framework. However, empirical evidence suggests that people with diagnosed diseases often answer the self-reported health (SRH) question positively. In pursuit of a better proxy to understand, measure and improve health, this scoping review of reviews examines the potential of SRH to be used as an outcome of interest in population health policies. Following PRISMA-ScR guidelines, it synthesizes findings from 77 review papers (published until 11 May 2022) and reports a robust association between SDH and SRH. It also investigates inconsistencies within and between reviews to reveal how variation in population health can be explained by studying the impact of contextual factors, such as cultural, social, economic and political elements, on structural determinants such as socioeconomic situation, gender and ethnicity. These insights provide informed hypotheses for deeper explorations of the role of SDH in improving SRH. The review detects several gaps in the literature. Notably, more evidence syntheses are required, in general, on the pathway from contextual elements to population SRH and, in particular, on the social determinants of adolescents' SRH. This study reports a disease-oriented mindset in collecting, analysing and reporting SRH across the included reviews. Future studies should utilize the capability of SRH in interconnecting social, psychological and biological dimensions of health to actualize its full potential as a central public health measure.
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- Keiwan Wind
- DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4M4, Canada
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- Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, 155 College St Room 500, Toronto, Ontario M5T 3M7, Canada
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- Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies, School of Human Resources Management, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3, Canada
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- Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, 155 College St Room 500, Toronto, Ontario M5T 3M7, Canada
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- Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, 155 College St Room 500, Toronto, Ontario M5T 3M7, Canada
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- Centre for Digital Therapeutics, R. Fraser Elliott Building, 4th Floor, 190 Elizabeth Street, Toronto, Ontario M5G 2C4, Canada
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Shaw SJ, Huebner Torres C, Lee JK, Gavrilyuk D, Korchmaros JD. Cultural and translation challenges in assessing health literacy among immigrants from the former Soviet Union. Health Promot Int 2023; 38:daad103. [PMID: 37796105 DOI: 10.1093/heapro/daad103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/06/2023] Open
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Health literacy is an important foundation for health promotion and an under-recognized risk factor for immigrant and refugee groups. Yet measuring health literacy among diverse ethnic and linguistic populations presents complex challenges. We describe cultural and translation challenges encountered in measuring health literacy among Russian-speaking immigrants to the USA and offer a mixed-methods approach to understanding them. The Rx-Health Literacy (RxHL) study used cross-sectional quantitative and qualitative data to examine health literacy and medication adherence among five cultural and four language groups (Latinx, Vietnamese, African-American, Russian-speaking immigrant and White American) who are patients at Caring Health Center, a federally qualified health center in Springfield, MA. We translated an existing health literacy scale into Russian and Vietnamese and examined item difficulty across cultural groups. We conducted qualitative cognitive interviews to learn more about Russian speakers' understandings of the scale. Health literacy scores varied by cultural group, and the range of correct responses was much greater among Russian speakers than in other groups. Percentage correct varied by 69.7% for Russian speakers, compared with 25.0-44.0% for other groups. These findings indicate greater variability in health literacy levels among this group compared with others. Cognitive interviews with Russian-speaking participants revealed multiple interpretations of several items, suggesting that the English version of the scale contained embedded meanings associated with an American health care context that were not captured in the translated instrument. Combining qualitative and quantitative research methods allows for greater insight into contextual and translation factors that may shape the results of translated instruments in unanticipated ways.
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- Susan J Shaw
- Department of Health Promotion and Policy, University of Massachusetts, 715 N. Pleasant St., Amherst, MA, USA
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- Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science, University of Arizona, 1295 N. Martin St., Tucson, AZ, USA
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- Caring Health Center, 1049 Main St., Springfield, MA 01103, USA
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- Southwest Institute for Research on Women, University of Arizona, 915 N. Tyndall Ave., Tucson, AZ, USA
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Jenkins CL, Wills J, Sykes S. Settings for the development of health literacy: A conceptual review. Front Public Health 2023; 11:1105640. [PMID: 36875396 PMCID: PMC9978221 DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1105640] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2022] [Accepted: 01/31/2023] [Indexed: 02/18/2023] Open
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Advances in conceptualizing settings in health promotion include understanding settings as complex and interlinked systems with a core commitment to health and related outcomes such as health literacy. Traditional settings for the development of health literacy include health care environments and schools. There is a need to identify and conceptualize non-traditional and emerging settings of twenty-first-century everyday life. The aim of this conceptual review is to inform a conceptual model of a "non-traditional" setting for the development of health literacy. The model uses the example of the public library to propose four equity-focused antecedents required in a setting for the development of health literacy: the setting acknowledges the wider determinants of health, is open access, involves local communities in how it is run, and facilitates informed action for health. The review concludes that a settings approach to the development of health literacy can be conceptualized as part of a coordinated "supersetting approach," where multiple settings work in synergy with each other.
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- Catherine L Jenkins
- Institute of Health and Social Care, London South Bank University, London, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Health and Social Care, London South Bank University, London, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Health and Social Care, London South Bank University, London, United Kingdom
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Bae EJ, Jang AR, Park H, Yoon JY. Investigating knowledge structure and research trends in child and adolescent health literacy research through network text analysis. J Pediatr Nurs 2022; 67:57-63. [PMID: 35952487 DOI: 10.1016/j.pedn.2022.08.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2022] [Revised: 07/26/2022] [Accepted: 08/01/2022] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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PURPOSE This study aims to investigate the knowledge structure and research trends in child and adolescent health literacy research over the past 30 years by using network text analysis. METHOD The study was conducted in four steps: 1) collecting abstracts, 2) keyword extraction and preprocessing, 3) creation of co-occurrence matrix, and 4) text network analysis. RESULTS As a result of the centrality analysis, the upper-ranked core keywords were "health care," "health behavior," "prevention," "treatment," and "health promotion." In contrast to earlier times, "barrier," "caregiver," "school setting," and "QOL" have recently emerged as core keywords. CONCLUSIONS Over the past 30 years, child and adolescent health literacy has been importantly addressed in both clinical and public health approaches. The results of the current study provide references for future research in child and adolescent health literacy. IMPLICATION FOR PRACTICE AND RESEARCH This study suggests the need for additional research on school-based practices that can improve health literacy and for identifying validated and reliable multidimensional health literacy assessment instruments.
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- Eun Jung Bae
- College of Nursing, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- College of Nursing, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- College of Nursing, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- College of Nursing, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea; Research Institute of Nursing Science, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea; Center for Human-Caring Nurse Leaders for the Future by Brain Korea 21 (BK 21) four project, College of Nursing, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea.
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Zhang L, Liao J, Pan X, Liang D, Zeng J, Sun M, Luo X, Ma X, Yin M, Ni J. How to make more people adopt healthy behaviors? Assessing health literacy, health promoting lifestyle and their association of community residents in Shenzhen, China. Front Public Health 2022; 10:900883. [PMID: 36045727 PMCID: PMC9423099 DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.900883] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2022] [Accepted: 07/27/2022] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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Introduction Health literacy (HL) has been concerned a key factor for determining the use of health information and promoting health. The study aimed to explore the relationship between different health literacy types and health promoting lifestyle (HPL) in different health literacy population. Methods The survey analyzed a sample of 16,921 community residents in Shenzhen. The Chinese Citizen Health Literacy Questionnaire and health-promoting lifestyle profile II (HPLP- II) were used to assess health literacy and health promoting lifestyle. Results Participants were divided into different populations based on the correlation between HL and HPL. The low-HL and medium-HL populations were judged to lack health literacy, and demographic characteristics were significantly different between different HPL levels in low-HL and medium-HL populations. There were 6 types of HL, and health information literacy (β = 0.08, P < 0.001) and chronic disease literacy (β = 0.08, P < 0.001) positively predicted HPL in the low-HL population. In the medium-HL population, the results of reward and punishment analysis showed that health information was a basic factor, chronic disease was performance factor, medical care was a motivating factor for HPL; there were 6 dimensions of HPL, and health responsibility (HR), stress management (SM) and physical activity (PA) were not significantly different in medium-HL population. The results of regression analysis showed that HR and PA had a great impact on HPL (HR: β = 0.193, PA: β =0.179, β for other dimensions was 0.186, 0.176, 0.171, 0.164), but the HR and PA standardized scores were lowest in the HPL dimensions (HR: 69.42, PA: 68.5, lower than other dimensions), so it may be HR and PA that cause HPL unchanged between groups in the medium-HL population. Conclusions Different HL levels have different relationships with HPL, and different HL types have different effects on HPL. Shenzhen community residents need to improve their HL, and they have great potentials for further progress to improve the population health. Public health policy makers need to consider formulating different policies for people with different HL levels.
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Lawrence PR, Feinberg I, Spratling R. The Relationship of Parental Health Literacy to Health Outcomes of Children with Medical Complexity. J Pediatr Nurs 2021; 60:65-70. [PMID: 33621896 DOI: 10.1016/j.pedn.2021.02.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2020] [Revised: 02/08/2021] [Accepted: 02/08/2021] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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THEORETICAL PRINCIPLES Children with medical complexity experience negative health outcomes despite the high costs associated with their care. There is growing evidence that low parental health literacy is associated with a number of poor child health outcomes, including medication errors. However, less is known about the relationship between parental health literacy and the health outcomes of children with medical complexity, whose care is known to be more complex and demanding of parents. PHENOMENA ADDRESSED The challenges faced by parents of children with medical complexity are presented, including those related to communication, care coordination, and medication administration. The historical and theoretical perspectives of health literacy are discussed, and the relationship of parental health literacy to pediatric health outcomes for children with medical complexity is explored. RESEARCH LINKAGES Remaining knowledge gaps about parental health literacy and its influence on the health of children with medical complexity are outlined. Future research and clinical practice implications of health literacy and its importance to family-centered care are discussed.
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- Patricia R Lawrence
- Byrdine F. Lewis College of Nursing and Health Professions, Georgia State University, GA, USA.
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- College of Education and Human Development, Georgia State University, GA, USA.
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- Byrdine F. Lewis College of Nursing and Health Professions, Georgia State University, GA, USA.
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Elsborg P, Ryom K, Melby PS, Nielsen G, Maindal HT, Bentsen P. Letter to 'which literacy for health promotion: health, food, nutrition or media?' Paper: what about physical literacy and what can be learned from it? Health Promot Int 2021; 36:1806-1810. [PMID: 34297823 DOI: 10.1093/heapro/daaa158] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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- Peter Elsborg
- Health Promotion Research, Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen, Gentofte, Denmark
- Center for Clinical Research and Prevention, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital, Frederiksberg, Denmark
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- Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Danish School Sports, Nyborg, Denmark
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- Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Center for Clinical Research and Prevention, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital, Frederiksberg, Denmark
- Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, Denmark
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Inefficient health service utilisation puts pressure on health systems and may cause such negative individual consequences as over-medicalisation or exacerbation of health problems. While previous research has considered the key relevance of health literacy (HL) for efficient use of health services, the results of that research have been somewhat inconclusive. Possible reasons for diverging results of prior research may be grounded in different measurement concepts of HL and the disregarding of age-specific effects. This paper analyses the association between individuals’ HL typology based on a two-dimensional concept and indicators of health service utilisation measured by registered data covering the number of doctor visits and medication costs. Our results confirm a significant interaction effect between age and HL typology. The age-related increase in health service utilisation is strongest for individuals with the combination of high subjective HL but low health-related knowledge, while the smallest increase is for individuals with the constellation of high subjective HL combined with high health-related knowledge. Individuals with specific constellations of HL (that is, individuals with high subjective HL but low health-related knowledge) are associated with reduced service utilisation in younger ages but higher service utilisation in later stages of life, compared to other groups. These results are likely to be attributed to a higher external health-related locus of control and more traditional paternalistic role expectations in such groups.
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The Role of School Leaders' Health Literacy for the Implementation of Health Promoting Schools. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2020; 17:ijerph17061855. [PMID: 32178457 PMCID: PMC7142764 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph17061855] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2020] [Revised: 03/04/2020] [Accepted: 03/11/2020] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Background: The promotion of health literacy is seen as an urgent goal in public health and education and, hence, should be integrated in the school context as a component of the holistic health promoting school (HPS) approach. However, only limited empirical studies have addressed health literacy of school staff so far. Hence, this study aimed to examine the level of health literacy among school leaders and its association with the extent of HPS implementation. Methods: A cross-sectional study with n = 680 school principals and members of the school management board from Germany was carried out at the end of 2018. Individual health literacy, attitudes, and competencies towards HPS and occupational self-efficacy served as independent variables and the level of HPS implementation was the dependent variable. Data were analyzed using univariate and bivariate analysis as well as multiple binary logistic regression. Results: 29.3% of school leaders show a limited health literacy with significantly higher values found for male respondents. Regression analyses revealed that male gender (OR: 1.91, 95% CI: 1.22–2.99), HPS attitudes (OR: 3.17, 95% CI: 2.13–4.72), and HPS competencies (OR: 3.66, 95% CI: 2.43–5.50) were associated with a lower level of HPS implementation. Furthermore, regression analyses differentiated by gender showed that limited health literacy is associated with a low level of HPS implementation for male school leaders only (OR: 2.81, 95% CI: 1.22–6.45). Conclusions: The promotion of health literacy especially for male leaders would not only result in positive effects on an individual level but also could contribute to a stronger implementation of activities on school health promotion. We suggest integrating health literacy, HPS attitudes, and competencies more strongly into the qualification and in further training of school leaders.
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Health Literacy and Active Transport in Austria: Results from a Rural Setting. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2020; 17:ijerph17041404. [PMID: 32098147 PMCID: PMC7068285 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph17041404] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2019] [Revised: 02/11/2020] [Accepted: 02/17/2020] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Health literacy (HL) has been determined for the general population and for subgroups, though the relationship between HL and active transport in rural areas was not explored. The aim of our study is to investigate HL among citizens in an Austrian rural region and to explore the associations between HL and active transport. This cross-sectional telephone survey included 288 adults (171 women) with a mean age of 57.8 (SD 0.9). HL was assessed using the HLS-EU-Q16 questionnaire. Active transport was measured as the minutes per week spent on walking or cycling from A to B. After descriptive analysis, the association between HL and active transport was assessed using linear regression models. The mean HL score for all participants was 37.1 (SD 7.7). Among all subjects, 6.9% showed inadequate HL, 25.7% problematic HL, 38.9% sufficient HL, and 28.5% excellent HL. HL was significantly higher among citizens with high education (p = 0.04) and training/employment in healthcare (p = 0.001). Active transport was not associated with HL (p = 0.281). Active transport in rural areas might be influenced by other predictors like distance to work, street connectivity, and accessible facilities for walking and biking. This needs to be explored further for rural areas.
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