Health literacy and its importance for effective communication. Part 2
Veronica Lambert Lecturer, School of nursing and human sciences, Dublin City University, Ireland
Deborah Keogh Fourth-year undergraduate nursing student, Dublin City University, Ireland
This is the second of two articles exploring the concept of health literacy, an often hidden barrier to effective healthcare communication. Part 1 was published in April (Lambert and Keogh 2014). This article explains how to detect low levels of health literacy among parents and children, and outlines the challenges to assessing health literacy levels, including the stigma and discrimination some people experience. Some basic healthcare communication strategies for supporting health literacy in practice are suggested.
Nursing Children and Young People.
26, 4, 32-36.
doi: 10.7748/ncyp2014.05.26.4.32.e387
Correspondence
veronica.lambert@dcu.ie
Peer review
This article has been subject to open peer review
Conflict of interest
None declared
Received: 16 April 2013
Accepted: 21 August 2013
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