Health Literacy and People with Intellectual Disabilities: What We Know, What We Do Not Know, and What We Need: A Theoretical Discourse

Geukes, Cornelia; Bröder, Janine; Latteck, Änne-Dörte

doi:10.3390/ijerph16030463

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Health Literacy and People with Intellectual Disabilities: What We Know, What We Do Not Know, and What We Need: A Theoretical Discourse

Cornelia Geukes

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Janine Bröder

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Änne-Dörte Latteck

Department of Nursing and Health, Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences, Interaktion 1, 33619 Bielefeld, Germany

Faculty of Educational Science, Bielefeld University, Konsequenz 41A, 33619 Bielefeld, Germany

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Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2019, 16(3), 463; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16030463

Received: 20 December 2018 / Revised: 25 January 2019 / Accepted: 31 January 2019 / Published: 5 February 2019

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Disability and Global Health)

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Although health literacy is widely discussed and many heterogeneous conceptualizations exist, people with intellectual disabilities have remained largely unconsidered. The purpose of this conceptual paper is to analyze the particularities of this target group and discuss and consider implications that arise when conceptualizing the health literacy of people with intellectual disabilities. Therefore, we explore relevant approaches from multiple disciplines and examine their transferability to a conceptual understanding of health literacy for people with intellectual disabilities. For future directions we identified three main dimensions: (1) disentangle health literacy from empowerment; (2) apply a positive, asset-based focus to health literacy; and (3) focus on health literacy as a distributed resource across individuals and their individual life-world. View Full-Text

Keywords: health literacy; intellectual disabilities; decision-making; health information

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Geukes, C.; Bröder, J.; Latteck, Ä.-D. Health Literacy and People with Intellectual Disabilities: What We Know, What We Do Not Know, and What We Need: A Theoretical Discourse. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2019, 16, 463. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16030463

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Geukes C, Bröder J, Latteck Ä-D. Health Literacy and People with Intellectual Disabilities: What We Know, What We Do Not Know, and What We Need: A Theoretical Discourse. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2019; 16(3):463. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16030463

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Geukes, Cornelia, Janine Bröder, and Änne-Dörte Latteck. 2019. "Health Literacy and People with Intellectual Disabilities: What We Know, What We Do Not Know, and What We Need: A Theoretical Discourse" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16, no. 3: 463. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16030463

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