Title: Health literacy as a public health goal : a challenge for contemporary health education and communication strategies into the 21st century

Authors: Nutbeam, Don

Place: Oxford [etc.]

Publisher: Oxford university press

Year: cop. 2000

Journal: Health promotion international

Volume: vol. 15, no. 3

PAGE: 259--267

Subject: Health and Poverty

Keywords: health information, health care delivery, health education, poverty

Abstract: In this article is a 'health outcome model' presented. About functional health literacy, interactive health literacy and critical health literacy. By improving people's access to health information and their capacity to use it, it is argued that improved health literacy is critical to empowerment.

URL: http://heapro.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/15/3/259

Document type: Portal