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Zusammenfassung
Hintergrund
Es bestehen sozioökonomische Disparitäten in der Inanspruchnahme gesundheitsfördernder und primärpräventiver Maßnahmen bei Kindern und Jugendlichen.
Ziel der Arbeit
Ziel ist es, einen breiten Überblick über Ansätze zur Erhöhung der Reichweite in der Gesundheitsförderung und Prävention bei vulnerablen Kindern und Jugend...
Zusammenfassung
Hintergrund
Die Gesundheitskompetenz (GK) junger Menschen wird von Wissenschaft und Politik zunehmend als Ansatzpunkt für Gesundheitsförderung und Prävention anerkannt. Gerade die GK von Kindern wurde jedoch, insbesondere in Deutschland, bisher kaum erforscht. Diese Studie widmet sich dieser Forschungslücke, indem sie die GK von Vi...
Background
The WHO describes Health literacy (HL) as a critical determinant of health, and a number of studies among adults link low HL to adverse health outcomes. However, little research has been conducted on HL and health outcomes in younger populations. Thus, this study describes the relationship between HL, health behaviors, and health status...
This chapter links directly two almost completely separated discourses and concepts: Health Literacy and Life Skills and examines the relationship of the two broad concepts on an empirical basis. The analysis brings to the fore immense differences between German federal states. Assessing this regional difference is the key finding of our study. The...
The goal of this chapter is to de-construct health literacy meanings by giving a voice to children in their meaning making process. This chapter is like looking through a window into a gathering of people discussing at the table: we get the glimpse of insights that were generated in the course of wider exchange with researchers within the network W...
Perspectives of health literacy basically address any form of human action that is taken in connection with health-related information. The rise of interest in health literacy has been stimulated by views that consider health literacy to be a key determinant for a healthy life in today’s societies. With the establishment of this “premise”, it has b...
Der vorliegende Beitrag nimmt sich der Rekonstruktion der historisch-konzeptionellen Genese des Gesundheitskompetenzkonzeptes an. Die Zielsetzung fokussiert insbesondere den Entstehungskontext von Gesundheitskompetenz, wobei eine Rückschau auf die wesentlichen Entwicklungspfade angeboten, die Verortung in unterschiedlichen Fachdisziplinen untersuch...
In jüngster Vergangenheit ist dem Thema Health Literacy in unterschiedlichen Forschungs-, Politik- und Praxisfeldern eine zunehmende Bedeutung zuteil geworden. Parallel dazu wird die Relevanz des Themas für verschiedene Praxis- und Handlungsbereiche zunehmend anerkannt. Trotz seiner offenkundigen Relevanz erweist sich eine inhaltliche Annäherung an...
Der Beitrag ist eine Zusammenstellung von interdisziplinären Perspektiven auf die Gesundheitskompetenz von Kindern, welche als Anregung für den laufenden Forschungsdiskurs verstanden werden soll; als Anregung deshalb, weil es sich um vorläufige Überlegungen handelt, die einem zeitlich um eine Vorkonferenz herum verdichteten Austausch zwischen Forsc...
Gesundheitskompetenz und Inklusion können – auch mit Blick auf Kinder und Jugendliche – zu den wichtigsten Themen in der gesundheitsbezogenen Forschung in den vergangenen zehn Jahren gezählt werden. Aufgrund der unterschiedlichen wissenschaftlichen Grundlagen und disziplinären Verortungen hat es bislang jedoch nur wenig Austausch zwischen den Forsc...
Unter den zahlreichen Definitionen von Health Literacy gibt es viele Verweise auf die Auffassung, dass Health Literacy enge Querbezüge zu Literacy hat („Health literacy is linked to literacy“). Aus der Sichtung der Forschungsliteratur zu Health Literacy offenbart sich jedoch, dass die postulierten Zusammenhänge mit dem Gegenstand Literacy in den me...
Gesundheitskompetenz hat sich in den letzten drei Jahrzehnten zu einem wichtigen Forschungsgegenstand entwickelt, jedoch galt die Gesundheitskompetenz von Kindern und Jugendlichen lange Zeit als marginalisiert. Vor diesem Hintergrund hat der interdisziplinäre Forschungsverbund „Health Literacy in Childhood and Adolescence (HLCA)“ im Jahr 2015 die E...
Background
Health literacy (HL) has been acknowledged as a critical determinant of health. While HL and its potential determinants have been studied in adults, little research has been conducted with children. Therefore, this study investigates factors associated with children's subjective HL to explore potential entry points for the promotion of H...
Background:
Until now, children younger than age 13 years have received little attention in research on health literacy. Although some tools assess children's health literacy, no validated tool is available that assesses self-reported health literacy in a systematic and comparable way. The European Health Literacy Survey Questionnaire (HLS-EU-Q) i...
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Promoting health literacy in early life is regarded as an important means of sustaining health literacy and health over the life course. However, little evidence is available on children's health literacy, partly due to a scarcity of suitable measurement tools. Although there are 18 tools to measure specific items of health literacy fo...
The COVID-19 pandemic plunges the world into a crisis that is touching all sectors of
society. In a desperate attempt to contain the further spread of the disease, governments
across the world have taken unprecedented measures, closing schools, universities, houses of
worship, shops, restaurants, theatres and other non-system relevant settings but...
![Regression models based on the data of the MoMChild project [32].](profile/Fretian-Alexandra-M-2/publication/339739154/figure/tbl2/AS:866020524834817@1583486791517/Regression-models-based-on-the-data-of-the-MoMChild-project-32_Q320.jpg)
Low health literacy is considered to lead to worse health-related outcomes and behaviors and has therefore been recognized as a social determinant of health. While health literacy and its potential determinants have been studied in adults, little research has been conducted with children. This study aims to address this research gap by investigatin...
Das Thema Health Literacy, für das sich im deutschen Sprachgebrauch der Begriff der Gesundheitskompetenz etabliert hat, hat in der jüngeren Vergangenheit eine spürbare Aufwertung in Praxis, Politik und Forschung erfahren. Inhaltlich setzt es sich mit vielfältigen Aspekten des Umgangs mit gesundheitsbezogenen Informationen auseinander und adressiert...
(1) Background: This article adopts an interdisciplinary perspective to analyse, examine, and reflect upon prominent health literacy (HL) understandings in childhood and youth. (2) Method: The conceptual analysis combined Rodgers’ and Jabareen’s approaches to conceptual analysis in eight phases. (3) Results: First, we present exploratory entry poin...
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC license. Health literacy addresses a range of social dimensions of health including knowledge, navigation, communication as well as individual and organizational skills for accessing, understanding, evaluating and using of information. Especially over the past decade, health literacy has become a major public he...
Conceptual Framework: Given the high prevalence of young people suicide, schools are a privileged means of prevention. The existence of the first National Suicide Prevention Plan (2013-2017) is an indicator of awareness of the problem, whose objectives will be to increase health information and education, involving the entire school community. The...
Children and young people's importance as core target population for health literacy has been highlighted throughout the literature due to the relevance of the early life phases for maintaining, restoring and promoting health during the life course. Transferring health literacy concepts to the target population, however, requires proper testing of...
Health Literacy ist ein multidisziplinäres Konzept, das den Umgang mit Gesundheitsinformationen in den Bereichen Krankheitsversorgung, Gesundheitsförderung und Prävention adressiert. Während bisher vornehmlich Erwachsene im Fokus der Forschung standen, haben Kinder und Jugendliche vor allem als Zielgruppe im Kontext der Gesundheitsförderung zunehme...
Background:
Health literacy is an important health promotion concern and recently children and adolescents have been the focus of increased academic attention. To assess the health literacy of this population, researchers have been focussing on developing instruments to measure their health literacy. Compared to the wider availability of instrumen...
Accepted abstract for a workshop presentation at the 2017 European Public Health Conference at Stockholm.
Topic: Predictors of subjective health literacy in children aged 9 to 10.
Following publication of this article [1], it has come to our attention that one of the authors has had their name misspelt. “Ullich Bauer” should actually be read as “Ullrich Bauer”. The original article has been updated to reflect this.
Background
Children and young people constitute a core target group for health literacy research and practice: during childhood and youth, fundamental cognitive, physical and emotional development processes take place and health-related behaviours and skills develop. However, there is limited knowledge and academic consensus regarding the abilities...
Suicidal behaviors of children and young people are a major public health concern. In Portugal, the increasing awareness of this problem is well reflected by the implementation of the first national suicide prevention plan from 2013 to 2017. One of its main goals is to increase information and education about mental health in schools. By use of a s...
Health Literacy ist ein multidisziplinäres Konzept, das den Umgang mit Gesundheitsinformationen in den Bereichen Krankheitsversorgung, Gesundheitsförderung und Prävention adressiert. Während bisher vornehmlich Erwachsene im Fokus der Forschung standen, haben Kinder und Jugendliche vor allem als Zielgruppe im Kontext der Gesundheitsförderung zunehme...
Background Lower levels of health literacy (HL) have been found to be associated with poorer health outcomes. Thus, in the last years HL has been increasingly acknowledged as an approach towards health promotion. While there is a large body of studies on adults’ HL, only few studies investigate HL of children. To tackle this research gap, we aim to...
Introduction: Training MOOC environment for teachers/educators
is something scarce in Portuguese scientific research. Evaluation
tools to assess teachers’ gatekeeper capabilities, literacy in mental
health and suicide are sparely used in the type referenced training
as well.
Objectives: To develop and validate three health literacy assessment
tools...
Hintergrund: Da niedrige Levels von Health Literacy (gesundheitliche Grundbildung bzw. Gesundheitskompetenz) mit ungünstigeren Health Outcomes assoziiert sind, wird Health Literacy in den letzten Jahren zunehmend als Element von Krankheitsprävention und Gesundheitsförderung adressiert. Während für die Erfassung, Beschreibung und Bewertung der Healt...
Background
According to conservative estimates approximately three million children experience at least one parent with a mental disorder every year. This is about a quarter of all students in Germany. Burden patterns and attempts at coping also become manifest in children’s school lives, mostly with impairments in their learning performance. For t...
Health literacy is multidisciplinary and brings together many concepts, and is of increasing importance for disease protection, health promotion, and prevention, and for health policy within Europe. Although its importance is increasingly recognised, adults are mostly the target audience, whereas children and adolescents, in addition to education a...
Purpose: The workshop aims to highlight the potential contribution of teachers to promote child mental health in schools. We will figure out the current practices in schools by questioning how professionals deal with children at risk for mental disorders. The diagnostic perspective will be complemented with an outline of strategies to promote child...
O estudo decorreu de 6 a 31 de janeiro de 2015, em que 97% dos inquiridos aceitaram o consentimento informado do questionário online. O instrumento foi distribuído por redes sociais e diretamente às direções escolares. O questionário de avaliação da literacia em saúde mental e prevenção do suicídio, foi construído de raíz, é do tipo Likert. Program...
O estudo decorreu de 6 a 31 de janeiro de 2015, em que 97% dos inquiridos aceitaram o consentimento informado do questionário online. O instrumento foi distribuído por redes sociais e diretamente às direções escolares. O questionário de avaliação da literacia em saúde mental e prevenção do suicídio, foi construído de raiz, é do tipo Likert. Program...
Hintergrund
Studien belegen die gesundheitliche Relevanz von „Health Literacy“ (HL), etwa für die Inanspruchnahme von präventiven und kurativen Angeboten. Der Kindheits- und Jugendphase kommt hierbei für die gesundheitliche Entwicklung sowie für die Nachhaltigkeit von Angeboten der Prävention und Gesundheitsförderung eine zentrale Bedeutung zu. Di...
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Artisanal small-scale gold mining (ASGM) is a poverty-driven activity practiced in over 70 countries worldwide. Zimbabwe is amongst the top ten countries using large quantities of mercury to extract gold from ore. This analysis was performed to check data availability and derive a preliminary estimate of disability-adjusted life years...
Introduction:In the recent past, health literacy has gained renewed attention in-and outside health care and been recognized a promising target for health promotion/disease prevention. Access to the school setting to promote the mental health literacy of teachers and thus enhance health-promoting potentials of children is however poor. We, therefor...
One of China’s major challenges in terms of socio-demographic changes and population health is the large mobile population mainly represented by rural-to-urban migrant workers. After enacting of the "open door-policy" in 1978, economic growth, particularly in the large coastal urban centres, dramatically accelerated. Massive urbanization processes...
Children of parents who suffer from mental health disorders are more likely to develop mental disorders than children of parents not suffering from mental disorders. For children at risk, preventive strategies are hardly available and, if available, rarely supported by a scientific evaluation. "Kanu - Gemeinsam weiterkommen (canoe - moving jointly...
SUMMARY Setting priorities in the field of infectious diseases requires evidence-based and robust baseline estimates of disease burden. Therefore, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control initiated the Burden of Communicable Diseases in Europe (BCoDE) project. The project uses an incidence- and pathogen-based approach to measure the i...
Estonian translation of the summary by T. L.
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German translation of the summary by B. J.
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Italian translation of the summary by S. L.
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Mirjam Kretzschmar and colleagues describe the BCoDE project, which uses a pathogen-based incidence approach to better estimate the infectious disease burden in Europe.
Quantitative assessments of the health status of a population are undisputedly an important source of information to support decision-making and priority-setting processes in the field of Public Health. A common practice to (a) indicate the average level and the distribution of health in a population and (b) identify the impact of diseases on popul...
