Hashemi-Shahri Seyed Mohammad, Khammarnia Mohammad, Ansari-Moghaddam Alireza, Setoodehzadeh Fatemeh, Okati-Aliabad Hassan, Peyvand Mostafa
Health Promotion Research Center, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran.
Med J Islam Repub Iran. 2020 Jun 17;34:63. doi: 10.34171/mjiri.34.63. eCollection 2020.
In the 21st century, the world has become a global village and a disease outbreak in one part of the world can spread rapidly to other countries far away. The emergence of the new Coronavirus (COVID-19) in China in January 2020 and its growing level of spread and severity between and within other countries as well as different continents has become a global emergency. Moreover, low health literacy results in more problems and continuation of the outbreak. Consequently, COVID-19 pandemic may produce new debates, discussions, and disturbing developments every day. In the meantime, cyberspace plays an important role in this case. Improving people's health literacy can lead to increased potential of patients to make informed decisions, reduce health risks, increase disease prevention, and improve quality of life. The experience during COVID-19 pandemic has shown that health literacy plays an important role in preventing and controlling diseases and pandemic.
在21世纪，世界已变成一个地球村，世界上某一地区爆发的疾病能够迅速蔓延到遥远的其他国家。2020年1月新型冠状病毒（COVID-19）在中国出现，其在其他国家以及不同大洲之间和内部的传播程度和严重程度不断加剧，已成为一场全球紧急情况。此外，健康素养低下会导致更多问题并使疫情持续。因此，COVID-19大流行可能每天都会引发新的争论、讨论和令人不安的事态发展。与此同时，网络空间在这种情况下发挥着重要作用。提高人们的健康素养可以提高患者做出明智决策的可能性，降低健康风险，增强疾病预防能力，并改善生活质量。COVID-19大流行期间的经验表明，健康素养在预防和控制疾病及大流行方面发挥着重要作用。
