Atanasova Sara, Kamin Tanja
University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences, Kardeljeva pl. 5, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Zdr Varst. 2022 Jun 28;61(3):133-136. doi: 10.2478/sjph-2022-0018. eCollection 2022 Sep.
Health literacy refers to skills and knowledge that enable individuals to navigate health-related information environments, to function in healthcare systems, and to practice behaviors that lead to better health outcomes. Accordingly, health literacy is one of the major preoccupations of public health scholars, policies, and strategies. However, it is a complex, multidimensional, and dynamic concept that incorporates different kinds of health-related skills and knowledge. This editorial briefly presents dimensions, levels, and domains of health literacy and discusses a growing need to acknowledge health literacy as a context-specific concept that includes various forms with context-specific conceptualizations. More specifically, it focuses on three health literacy forms that are gaining attention, namely e-health literacy, vaccine literacy, and mental health literacy. By emphasizing the importance of health literacy research for this journal and in general this editorial calls for increasing engagement in this field and invites further contributions on the topic.
健康素养指的是使个人能够在与健康相关的信息环境中导航、在医疗保健系统中发挥作用并践行能带来更好健康结果的行为的技能和知识。因此，健康素养是公共卫生学者、政策和战略的主要关注点之一。然而，它是一个复杂、多维度且动态的概念，包含了不同类型的与健康相关的技能和知识。这篇社论简要介绍了健康素养的维度、水平和领域，并讨论了日益增长的一种需求，即承认健康素养是一个特定情境的概念，包括具有特定情境概念化的各种形式。更具体地说，它关注正在受到关注的三种健康素养形式，即电子健康素养、疫苗素养和心理健康素养。通过强调健康素养研究对本期刊以及总体而言的重要性，这篇社论呼吁更多地参与这一领域，并邀请就该主题做出进一步贡献。
