Department of Information Studies, University College, London (UCL), Foster Court, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK.
Soc Sci Med. 2022 Jan;292:114592. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114592. Epub 2021 Nov 20.
Information forms one of the main commonalities shared between definitions of health literacy. However, information literacy research, which centres how people become informed within a specific setting, has been almost completely sidelined from health literacy scholarship. This oversight risks limiting understanding of how health literacy is practised as well as narrowing research discourses. It also forms a missed opportunity as the recent sociocultural turn creates a valuable point of synergy between each field. This paper carries out a narrative literature review to identify key areas where information literacy research could help to extend understanding about how people interact with information within health contexts. Centred on exploring theoretical and empirical work, the paper uses examples from literature to suggest that assumptions related to how information, models of information use, social dynamics of information environments, the outcomes of information activity and critical approaches to information practice are understood impact the scope and the reach of health literacy research and practice. The goal of this paper is to establish an initial, shared research agenda that places health and information literacy in dialogue rather than in isolation from each other.
信息是健康素养定义的主要共同点之一。然而，以人们如何在特定环境中获取信息为中心的信息素养研究几乎完全被健康素养学术研究边缘化。这种忽视有可能限制对健康素养实践的理解，并缩小研究论述的范围。这也是一个错失的机会，因为最近的社会文化转向为每个领域之间创造了一个有价值的协同点。本文进行了叙述性文献综述，以确定信息素养研究可以在哪些关键领域帮助扩展对人们在健康环境中与信息互动方式的理解。本文以探索理论和实证工作为中心，通过文献中的例子表明，对信息、信息使用模型、信息环境的社会动态、信息活动的结果以及对信息实践的批判性方法的理解假设，会影响健康素养研究和实践的范围和深度。本文的目标是建立一个初步的、共同的研究议程，将健康和信息素养置于对话中，而不是相互孤立。
