Health Literacy in Context—Settings, Media, and Populations
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Global Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2018) | Viewed by 162735
Special Issue Editors
Interests: social and behavioural determinants of health, the development and evaluation of public health interventions
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We have been invited to plan and edit a Special Issue on “Health Literacy in Context” for the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH). Health literacy has been defined and conceptualized in multiple ways, but almost all definitions have the same core elements describing the skills that enable individuals to obtain, understand and use information to make decisions and take actions that will have an impact on their health. These health literacy skills can be applied to the full range of determinants of health (personal, social and environmental). Previous research has established that these skills and abilities are mediated by environmental demands and situational complexities.
To date, most published health literacy research has focused on assessing and improving personal skills and abilities. This Special Issue will examine more closely current progress in understanding “Health Literacy in Context”, and welcomes papers that improve our understanding of the mutual impact of a range of social, economic, environmental, and organisational influences on health literacy.
We especially encourage submission of papers that report on:
- the relationships between physical and social environments and health literacy;
- interventions to reduce environmental demands and complexity, including for example interventions to reduce organisational and administrative complexity of health services;
- health literacy interventions that are responsive to cultural preferences; and
- health literacy interventions using the preferred media of disengaged populations.
We encourage prospective authors to submit a 350 word abstract by 15 December 2017 for consideration and feedback by the Guest Editors. Authors whose abstracts are accepted will be invited to submit a full manuscript. Subject to the decision of the Special issue editors, up to 5 manuscripts accepted through this process will receive a waiver of the normal Journal publication fee. In addition, authors may submit their paper through the normal journal submission process and the usual journal processing fee of 1600 CHF will apply. All manuscripts will be subject to the journal’s normal peer review process.
Closing date for full manuscript submissions (through either process) is the 30 April 2018.
IJERPH is an established, open access, peer-reviewed journal that publishes articles and communications in the interdisciplinary area of environmental health sciences and public health. Its impact factor is 2.101 (2016); 5-Year Impact Factor: 2.540 (2016). For detailed information on the journal, we refer you to https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph.
Prof. Dr. Don Nutbeam
Prof. Dr. Diane Levin-Zamir
Prof. Dr. Gill Rowlands
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Culture
- Determinants of health
- Health disparities
- Health education
- Health literacy
- Health interventions
- Health promotion
- Organizational change
- Social disadvantage
- Social environment
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