Improving Digital Interventions for Health: The Role of Health Literacy
A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Informatics and Big Data".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2024) | Viewed by 16845
Special Issue Editors
2. Fontys School for Allied Health Professions, Fontys University of Applied Sciences, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Interests: technology acceptance; health care; technological and social innovation; implementation; co-creation; multi-stakeholder perspective
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Digital technology is promising with respect to accessibility of health care, in the light of current major challenges, for instance, shortage of skilled workforce, financial restraints, movement toward value-based health care and health equity. The use of digital technology, such as eHealth for monitoring and treating chronic diseases, is promising with respect to some of these challenges, but at the same time, for several reasons, has enhanced health inequity.
Especially low health literacy, which is strongly associated with low digital literacy, is an important theme to be addressed if innovations in health care, especially technological innovations, will - apart from other challenges - contribute to the closure of the health gap between populations.
Therefore, this Special Issue is dedicated to the subject of health literacy in relation to health inequity and the use of eHealth applications. We welcome authors to submit their manuscripts on, but not limited to, the following themes:
- The relationship between digital technology and health literacy;
- The consequences of (low) health literacy and accessibility of current health care;
- Tools to measure health literacy;
- Interventions to address health literacy, including digital literacy;
- Perspective and role of professionals in addressing health literacy, including digital literacy;
- Experiences and best practices to address health literacy in the context of the current development of eHealth;
- Examples and best practices of educational training to address health literacy issues, including digital applications.
Prof. Dr. Eveline J. M. Wouters
Dr. Anne Mie A. G. Sponselee
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- health literacy
- digital literacy
- health behaviour
- measurement tools
- eHealth
- digital technology
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