Abstracts by keywords: vulnerable population groups
Health literacy in vulnerable population groups
In the healthcare system, users are increasingly required to be able to find, understand, assess and apply health information to their own situation in order to make decisions, for example, about the treatment and care of illnesses or the recovery and maintenance of health. The knowledge, motivation and skills to deal with health-related information are referred to by experts as health literacy (Sørensen et al. 2012). Health literacy is the interaction of personal abilities and the requirements and complexity of situations and systems in which people move (Schaeffer et al. 2018). But people often face difficulties in dealing with health information.