Public Health Literacy for Lawyers

Health literacy: a critical concept for public health

Health literacy is gaining critical importance in public health. Since its introduction in the 1970s, the scientific literature on this subject has grown exponentially. To date, already more than 3000 publications on the topic are listed in Pubmed, 75% of which have been published in the last five years, and nearly 1000 have “health literacy” as a major MeSH term. Originally, the interest in he...

Why Health Lawyers Must Be Public-Law Lawyers: Health Law In the Age of the Modern Regulatory State

Schools, health literacy and public health: possibilities and challenges.

Health literacy is a concept that can be widely embraced by schools. Schools throughout the world contribute to the achievement of public health goals in conjunction with their educational commitments. In this paper, the interface between a school's core business of education and public health goals is identified, and examples provided in the area of nutrition demonstrating how these links can ...

health literacy: an indicator for health promotion

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Health literacy among young adults: a short survey tool for public health and health promotion research.

Health literacy (HL) is context-specific. In public health and health promotion, HL in the private realm refers to individuals' knowledge and skills to prevent disease and to promote health in everyday life. However, there is a scarcity of measurement tools explicitly geared to private realm contexts. Our aim was to develop and test a short survey tool that captures different dimensions of HL i...