Health Literacy: Covid-19

The COVID-19 pandemic has amplified the amount of health information available on the Internet and made digital information environments even more complex than they already were. Barriers to understanding public health information, particularly in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic have shown us how now, more than ever, Information developers and providers need to ensure information is easily accessed and understood. 

Recent articles on health literacy and the Covid-19 pandemic are listed below.

• I Montagni, K Ouazzani-Touhami, A Mebarki, N Texier, S Schück, C Tzourio, the CONFINS group, Acceptance of a Covid-19 vaccine is associated with ability to detect fake news and health literacy, Journal of Public Health, Volume 43, Issue 4, December 2021, Pages 695–702 https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdab028    
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• Nguyen, M. H., Pham, T., Nguyen, K. T., Nguyen, Y. H., Tran, T. V., Do, B. N., Dao, H. K., Nguyen, H. C., Do, N. T., Ha, T. H., Phan, D. T., Pham, K. M., Pham, L. V., Nguyen, P. B., Nguyen, H., Do, T. V., Ha, D. T., Nguyen, H. Q., Ngo, H., Trinh, M. V., … Duong, T. V. (2021). Negative Impact of Fear of COVID-19 on Health-Related Quality of Life Was Modified by Health Literacy, eHealth Literacy, and Digital Healthy Diet Literacy: A Multi-Hospital Survey. International journal of environmental research and public health, 18(9), 4929. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18094929

• Molnar A. (2021). Health Literacy During Pandemic and Education. Disaster medicine and public health preparedness, 1–2. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2021.206

• Paakkari, L., & Okan, O. (2020). COVID-19: health literacy is an underestimated problem. The Lancet. Public health, 5(5), e249–e250. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(20)30086-4

• Abdel-Latif M. (2020). The enigma of health literacy and COVID-19 pandemic. Public health, 185, 95–96. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2020.06.030

• Košir U, Sørensen K. COVID-19: the key to flattening the curve is health literacy. Perspect Public Health. 2020 Jul 10:1757913920936717. doi: 10.1177/1757913920936717. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 32650704.

• Abel, T., & McQueen, D. (2020). Critical health literacy in pandemics: the special case of COVID-19. Health promotion international, daaa141. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daaa141

• Eronen, J., Paakkari, L., Portegijs, E., & Rantanen, T. (2021). Coronavirus-related health literacy and perceived restrictiveness of protective measures among community-dwelling older persons in Finland. Aging clinical and experimental research, 33(8), 2345–2353. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40520-021-01928-6

• Corvo E, De Caro W. The paradox of the link between health literacy and health promotion: the case of COVID-19. Prof Inferm. 2020 Jun-Sep;73(3):219-222. English. doi: 10.7429/pi.2020.733219. PMID: 33355783.

• Hermans, L., Van den Broucke, S., Gisle, L., Demarest, S., & Charafeddine, R. (2021). Mental health, compliance with measures and health prospects during the COVID-19 epidemic: the role of health literacy. BMC public health, 21(1), 1365. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-11437-w