Orkan Okan & Ullrich Bauer 
International Handbook of Health Literacy [EPUB ebook] 
Research, Practice and Policy across the Life-Span

Introduction to the Book;

Part 1: Research into health literacy – An overview of recent developments;

Introduction to Part 1;

The many facets of health literacy: Scoping the current research of theories, concepts, and models;

1. Defining health literacy: Exploring differences and commonalities ~ Kristine Sørensen;

2. From Saranac Lake to Shanghai: A brief history of health literacy ~ Orkan Okan;

3. Health literacy of children and adolescents: Conceptual approaches and developmental considerations ~Janine Bröder and Graca S. Carvalho;

4. The concept of mental health literacy ~ Anthony F. Jorm;

Measuring health literacy: What, why and how?;

5. Measuring health literacy in adults: An overview and discussion of current tools ~ Andrew Pleasant, Caitlin Maish, Catina O’Leary and Richard Carmona;

6. Measuring children’s health literacy: Current approaches and challenges ~ Torsten M. Bollweg and Orkan Okan;

7. Developing an instrument for measuring health literacy of adolescents: Lessons learned ~ Christiane Firnges, Olga Domanska and Susanne Jordan;

8. Measuring Health Literacy in Europe: Introducing the European Health Literacy Survey Questionnaire (HLS-EU-Q) ~ Jürgen Pelikan, Kristin Ganahl, Stephan van den Broucke and Kristine Sørensen;

Health literacy, health outcomes and health inequalities: Some empirical findings;

9. Health literacy and health disparities: A global perspective ~ Sarah Mantwill and Nicola Diviani;

10. Health literacy in later phases of life: Findings from Germany and other countries ~ Dominique Vogt, Doris Schaeffer and Eva-Maria Berens;

11. Critical health literacy for the marginalised: Empirical findings ~ Susie Sykes and Jane Wills;

12. Health literacy and chronic conditions: A life course perspective ~ Gillian Rowlands, Joanne Protheroe, Luis Saboga-Nunes, Stephan Van den Broucke, Diane Levin-Zamir, and Orkan Okan;

13. Health literacy research in the Nordic Countries ~ Kristine Sørensen and Josefine Wangdahl;

Part 2: Programmes and interventions to promote health literacy;

Introduction to Part 2;

An overview of interventions and programmes;

14. Improving health literacy in clinical and community populations ~ Don Nutbeam and Bronwyn Mc Gill;

Interventions and programmes for children and adolescents;

15. MEDIA PROTECT: A setting- and parent-targeted intervention for a healthy childhood in the digital age ~ Paula Bleckmann, Hanna Schwendemann, Simone Flaig, Lea Kuntz, Anja Stiller, Thomas Mößle and Eva-Maria Bitzer;

16. Using photovoice as a participatory approach to promote youth health literacy ~ Paola Ardiles, Marlies Casteleijn, Charlene King and Kristine Sørensen;

17. Mental health literacy for refugee youth: A cultural approach ~ E. Anne Marshall and Deborah L. Begoray;

18. Media health literacy, ehealth literacy and health behaviour across the lifespan: Current progress and future challenges ~ Diane Levin-Zamir and Isabella Bertschi;

19. School-based mental health literacy interventions ~ Kathryn Cairns and Alyssia Rossetto;

20. Health literacy interventions for children or adolescents: An overview and insights into practical applications ~ Andrew Pleasant, Kristen Haven Griffin, Caitlin Maish, Catina O’Leary and Richard Carmona;

Interventions and programmes for adults and older adults;

21. Health literacy interventions in the delivery of pharmaceutical care ~ Laura J. Sahm, Suzanne Mc Carthy and Sarah Marshall;

22. A stated preference discrete choice health literacy intervention framework for the control of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in Africa: A qualitative perspectives for sustainable development ~ Kenneth Yongabi Anchang and Theckla Kwangsa Mbunwe;

23. Occupational health literacy: Healthy decisions at work ~ Marie Birk Jørgensen and Anne Konring Larsen;

24. Mental health literacy interventions in adults ~ Anthony F. Jorm;

25. An empirical perspective on the concept of mental health literacy in the field of families with parental mental illness ~ Kathrin Schulze, Patricia Wahl, Dirk Bruland, Stefanie Harsch and Michael Rehder;

26. Putting the literacy back in health literacy: Interventions in U.S. adult literacy and English language programmes ~ Julie Mc Kinney and Maricel G. Santos;

Part 3: Policy programmes to promote health literacy;

Introduction to Part 3;

27. Health literacy policies: European perspectives ~ Iris van der Heide, Monique Heijmans and Jany Rademakers;

28. Developing health literacy policy in Scotland: A case study ~ Graham Kramer, Blythe Robertson, Phyllis Easton and Andrew Pearson;

29. Health literacy policies: National examples from Canada ~ Sandra Vamos, Irving Rootman, Linda Shohet and Lorie Donelle;

30. Health literacy policies: National example from Austria – a unique story and some lessons learned: key success factors and caveats from an ongoing journey ~ Peter Nowak, Christina Dietscher and Marlene Sator;

31. Health literacy policy in Australia: Past, present and future directions ~ Anita Trezona, Emma Fitzsimon and Sarity Dodson;

32. Health literacy policies: National examples from the United States ~ Julie Mc Kinney and R.V. Rikard;

33. Health literacy in New Zealand: A tale of serendipity and indigenous health ~ Susan Reid and Carla White;

34. Health literacy and the school curriculum: The example of Finland ~ Olli Paakkari and Leena Paakkari;

Part 4: Future dialogue and new perspectives;

Introduction to Part 4;

35. Health-literate healthcare organisations ~ Jürgen Pelikan and Christina Wieczorek;

36. Future avenues for health literacy: Learning from literacy and literacy learning ~ Paulo Pinheiro;

37. The social embeddedness of health literacy ~ Ullrich Bauer;

38. Children as active participants in health literacy research and practice? From rhetoric to rights ~ Emma Bond and Vanessa Rawlings;

39. Health literacy practices of adults in an avatar-based immersive social virtual world: A sociocultural perspective of new media health literacies ~ Evelyn Mc Elhinney;

40. Health literacy and participation in the healthcare of adults: (In)compatible approaches? ~ Melanie Messer;

41. A lifespan perspective on health literacy: Aging and end-of-life issues ~ Barbara Kondilis;

42. Salutogenesis and health literacy: The health promotion simplex! ~ Luis Saboga-Nunes, Uwe H. Bittlingmayer and Orkan Okan;

43. Health literacy in a social context: A meta-narrative review ~ Ruth Pitt, Terry Davis, Jennifer Manganello, Phillip Massey, Orkan Okan, Elizabeth Mc Farlane, Opal Vanessa Buchthal, James Davis, Connie Arnold and Tetine Sentell;

44. Health literacy for all? Inclusion as a serious challenge for health literacy ~ Uwe H. Bittlingmayer and Diana Sahrai;

45. Capacity building for health literacy ~ Stephan van den Broucke.