Public libraries as health literate multi‐purpose workspaces for improving health literacy
- 2 November 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Health Promotion Journal of Australia
- Vol. 32 (S1) , 29-32
Abstract
Now more than ever, in this COVID–19 pandemic, our individual and collective ability to access, understand and apply information to inform our health care and broader lifestyle decisions, that is, to be health literate ‐ has life or death consequences.1 Health literacy is recognised as key to supporting people to better manage their own health and has the potential to improve health‐related outcomes of disadvantaged populations.Keywords
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