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Health literacy: setting an international collaborative research agenda

BACKGROUND: Health literacy is an increasingly important topic in both the policy and research agendas of many countries. During the recent 36(th )Annual Meeting of the North American Primary Care Research Group, the authors led an audio-taped 3-hour forum, "Studying Health Literacy: Developing...

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Autores principales: Protheroe, Joanne, Wallace, Lorraine S, Rowlands, Gillian, DeVoe, Jennifer E
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2719597/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19589176
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2296-10-51
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author Protheroe, Joanne
Wallace, Lorraine S
Rowlands, Gillian
DeVoe, Jennifer E
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description BACKGROUND: Health literacy is an increasingly important topic in both the policy and research agendas of many countries. During the recent 36(th )Annual Meeting of the North American Primary Care Research Group, the authors led an audio-taped 3-hour forum, "Studying Health Literacy: Developing an International Collaboration," where the current state of health literacy (HL) in the United States (US) and United Kingdom (UK) was presented and attendees were encouraged to debate a future research agenda. DISCUSSION OF FORUM THEMES: The debate centred around three distinct themes, including: (1) refining HL definitions and conceptual models, (2) HL measurement and assessment tools, and (3) developing a collaborative international research agenda. The attendees agreed that future research should be theoretically grounded and conceptual models employed in studies should be explicit to allow for international comparisons to be drawn. SUMMARY AND AUTHORS REFLECTIONS: The importance of HL research and its possible contribution to health disparities is becoming increasingly recognised internationally. International collaborations and comparative studies could illuminate some of the possible determinants of disparities, and also possibly provide a vehicle to examine other research questions of interest.
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spelling pubmed-27195972009-08-01 Health literacy: setting an international collaborative research agenda Protheroe, Joanne Wallace, Lorraine S Rowlands, Gillian DeVoe, Jennifer E BMC Fam Pract Correspondence BACKGROUND: Health literacy is an increasingly important topic in both the policy and research agendas of many countries. During the recent 36(th )Annual Meeting of the North American Primary Care Research Group, the authors led an audio-taped 3-hour forum, "Studying Health Literacy: Developing an International Collaboration," where the current state of health literacy (HL) in the United States (US) and United Kingdom (UK) was presented and attendees were encouraged to debate a future research agenda. DISCUSSION OF FORUM THEMES: The debate centred around three distinct themes, including: (1) refining HL definitions and conceptual models, (2) HL measurement and assessment tools, and (3) developing a collaborative international research agenda. The attendees agreed that future research should be theoretically grounded and conceptual models employed in studies should be explicit to allow for international comparisons to be drawn. SUMMARY AND AUTHORS REFLECTIONS: The importance of HL research and its possible contribution to health disparities is becoming increasingly recognised internationally. International collaborations and comparative studies could illuminate some of the possible determinants of disparities, and also possibly provide a vehicle to examine other research questions of interest. BioMed Central 2009-07-10 /pmc/articles/PMC2719597/ /pubmed/19589176 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2296-10-51 Text en Copyright © 2009 Protheroe et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2719597/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19589176
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2296-10-51
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