Department of Health Education and Health Promotion, Faculty of Health, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad 9137673119, Iran.
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Feb 17;19(4):2310. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19042310.
Organizational Health Literacy (OHL) is described as a new concept to remote health organizations to implement practices, policies, and systems that make it easier for patients to use, understand, and navigate health information to take care their own health. In Iran, there is no consensus on the attributes of OHL, and its practical implications and scope have not been evaluated. This manuscript is one of the first attempts to explain the attributes of the OHL in health care centers in Iran. This study is a content analysis survey, which was guided by the attributes of the OHL provided by Brach et al. and 26 semi-structured interviews were conducted with Iranian health professionals and employees of healthcare organizations from June 2020 to January 2021. A data analysis was performed using the MAXQDA 10 software. Across the study, ten sub-themes, 21 subcategories, and 67 codes emerged. The 10 main attributes of OHL were management, integration of health literacy in the organization, workforce, participation, range of HL skills, HL strategies, access, media variety, the role of the organization in crisis, and costs. These attributes may guide the planning of health care centers improvements and have the potential to promote health service reforms and public health policy.
组织健康素养（OHL）被描述为远程健康组织实施实践、政策和系统的新概念，使患者更容易使用、理解和获取健康信息来照顾自己的健康。在伊朗，对于 OHL 的属性没有达成共识，其实际意义和范围也没有得到评估。本文是首次尝试在伊朗医疗机构中解释 OHL 属性的研究之一。本研究是一项内容分析调查，以 Brach 等人提供的 OHL 属性为指导，于 2020 年 6 月至 2021 年 1 月对伊朗卫生专业人员和医疗机构员工进行了 26 次半结构化访谈。使用 MAXQDA 10 软件进行数据分析。在整个研究中，出现了 10 个副标题、21 个次类别和 67 个代码。OHL 的 10 个主要属性包括管理、组织内健康素养的整合、劳动力、参与、HL 技能范围、HL 策略、获取、媒体多样性、组织在危机中的作用和成本。这些属性可以指导医疗机构改进的规划，并有可能促进卫生服务改革和公共卫生政策。
