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The dark side of the moon: can critical health literacy offer solutions to the fundamental problems of health literacy?

Year: 2024

Type: editorial

Abstract: This commentary is intended as a response to ongoing concerns expressed about fundamental limitations of current research, policy, and practice surrounding health literacy. These concerns emphasise the individualistic and reductionist approaches which often dominate health literacy work, as well as a neglect of broader structural factors in addressing pressing public health issues. The potential of critical health literacy as a concept and practical approach which responds to these critiques is presented. A case is made that critical health literacy, as a concept that operates at both the community and individual level, offers an opportunity to address and eventually overcome these basic limitations in current health literacy approaches.

Source: Global Health Promotion

DOI: 10.1177/17579759241298255

Authors: Susie Sykes, Stephan van den Broucke, Thomas Abel

Institutions: London South Bank University, UCLouvain, University of Bern

Language: English

Topic: Health Literacy and Information Accessibility

Subfield: General Health Professions

Field: Health Professions

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $3,450