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A Health Equity Implementation Approach to Child Health Literacy Interventions
Health and behavioural inequalities exist in all populations, including children. As a social determinant of health, health literacy is a crucial driver of equitable health outcomes in children. With the increasing calls for more actions on addressing low health literacy and inequalities, health lit...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9497842/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36138593 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children9091284 |
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author | Naccarella, Lucio Guo, Shuaijun |
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description | Health and behavioural inequalities exist in all populations, including children. As a social determinant of health, health literacy is a crucial driver of equitable health outcomes in children. With the increasing calls for more actions on addressing low health literacy and inequalities, health literacy interventions to improve children’s healthy behaviours have emerged as a key strategy to reduce health inequities. However, health literacy interventions face implementation challenges impacting upon potential outcomes, and disparities in the implementation of health literacy interventions also occur. Variation exists in child health literacy intervention target groups, timing, content and formats, and there is a lack of implementation specificity, resulting in a lack of clarity about which intervention strategies are the most effective in improving health literacy, related health behaviours, and associated health outcomes. While actions to facilitate child health intervention implementation exist, to minimise further perpetuation of child health inequities, this perspective calls for a health equity implementation approach to child health literacy interventions. |
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spelling | pubmed-94978422022-09-23 A Health Equity Implementation Approach to Child Health Literacy Interventions Naccarella, Lucio Guo, Shuaijun Children (Basel) Commentary Health and behavioural inequalities exist in all populations, including children. As a social determinant of health, health literacy is a crucial driver of equitable health outcomes in children. With the increasing calls for more actions on addressing low health literacy and inequalities, health literacy interventions to improve children’s healthy behaviours have emerged as a key strategy to reduce health inequities. However, health literacy interventions face implementation challenges impacting upon potential outcomes, and disparities in the implementation of health literacy interventions also occur. Variation exists in child health literacy intervention target groups, timing, content and formats, and there is a lack of implementation specificity, resulting in a lack of clarity about which intervention strategies are the most effective in improving health literacy, related health behaviours, and associated health outcomes. While actions to facilitate child health intervention implementation exist, to minimise further perpetuation of child health inequities, this perspective calls for a health equity implementation approach to child health literacy interventions. MDPI 2022-08-25 /pmc/articles/PMC9497842/ /pubmed/36138593 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children9091284 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Commentary Naccarella, Lucio Guo, Shuaijun A Health Equity Implementation Approach to Child Health Literacy Interventions |
title | A Health Equity Implementation Approach to Child Health Literacy Interventions |
title_full | A Health Equity Implementation Approach to Child Health Literacy Interventions |
title_fullStr | A Health Equity Implementation Approach to Child Health Literacy Interventions |
title_full_unstemmed | A Health Equity Implementation Approach to Child Health Literacy Interventions |
title_short | A Health Equity Implementation Approach to Child Health Literacy Interventions |
title_sort | health equity implementation approach to child health literacy interventions |
topic | Commentary |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9497842/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36138593 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children9091284 |
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