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Research Article: Health Literacy Among University Students in Shaanxi Province of China: A Cross-Sectional Study

Date Published: 2023-05-11

Abstract:
Despite the growing recognition of the importance of health literacy (HL), there is no consensus on the definition of health literacy or its conceptual dimensions, which limits the possibilities for measurement and comparison.– The World Health Organization defines health literacy as the cognitive and social skills that determine an individual’s motivation and ability to acquire, understand and use information in order to promote and maintain good health mastery of information in order to promote and maintain good health. The US National Library of Medicine defines health literacy as an individual’s ability to access, understand, and process basic health information or services and to make sound health-related decisions. Sørensen K has proposed a model of health literacy that combines medical and public health perspectives, which can be used as a basis for the development of interventions to improve health literacy and provide a conceptual basis for the development and validation of measurement tools. Health literacy measurement is an important way to assess health literacy., The construction of health literacy measurement which scales from the dimensions of health knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) can accurately and scientifically express an individual’s health literacy.,

Introduction:
Despite the growing recognition of the importance of health literacy (HL), there is no consensus on the definition of health literacy or its conceptual dimensions, which limits the possibilities for measurement and comparison. – The World Health Organization defines health literacy as the cognitive and social skills that determine an individual’s motivation and ability to acquire, understand and use information in order to promote and maintain good health mastery of information in order to promote and maintain…

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