International Handbook of Health Literacy - Research, Practice and Policy across the Life-Span (Hardcover)

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Health literacy addresses a range of social dimensions of health, including knowledge, navigation and communication, as well as individual and organizational skills for accessing, understanding, evaluating and using information. Particularly over the past decade, health literacy has globally become a major public health concern as an asset for promoting health, wellbeing and sustainable development. This comprehensive handbook provides an invaluable overview of current international thinking about health literacy, highlighting cutting edge research, policy and practice in the field. With a diverse team of contributors, the book addresses health literacy across the life-span and offers insights from different populations and settings. Providing a wide range of major findings, the book outlines current discourse in the field and examines necessary future dialogues and new perspectives.

General

Imprint:	Policy Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	July 2019
First published:	2019
Editors:	Orkan Okan • Ullrich Bauer • Diane Levin-Zamir • Paulo Pinheiro • Kristine Sorensen
Dimensions:	240 x 172 x 48mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	768
ISBN-13:	978-1-4473-4451-3
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > General Books > Medicine > General issues > Health systems & services > Mental health services
LSN:	1-4473-4451-0
Barcode:	9781447344513

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