کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
3361905 1592052 2016 8 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Health literacy and infectious diseases: why does it matter?
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
سواد بهداشتی و بیماری های عفونی: چرا مهم است؟
کلمات کلیدی
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری ایمنی شناسی و میکروب شناسی میکروبیولوژی و بیوتکنولوژی کاربردی
چکیده انگلیسی


• Health literacy is an emerging public health and research field.
• There are limited studies focused on health literacy and infectious diseases.
• Infections such as malaria with a high burden of morbidity were underrepresented.
• Most investigations considered functional but not critical health literacy.

SummaryObjectivesMultifactorial interventions are crucial to arrest the threat posed by infectious diseases. Public involvement requires adequate information, but determinants such as health literacy can impact on the effective use of such knowledge. The influence of health literacy on infectious diseases is examined in this paper.MethodsDatabases were searched from January 1999 through July 2015 seeking studies reporting on health literacy and infections such tuberculosis, malaria, and influenza, and infection-related behaviours such as vaccination and hand hygiene. HIV was excluded, as comprehensive reviews have already been published.ResultsStudies were found on antibiotic knowledge and use, the adoption of influenza and MMR immunizations, and screening for sexually transmitted and viral hepatitis infections. There was a lack of investigations on areas such as tuberculosis, malaria, hand hygiene, and diarrhoeal diseases.ConclusionsLimited or insufficient health literacy was associated with reduced adoption of protective behaviours such as immunization, and an inadequate understanding of antibiotics, although the relationship was not consistent. Large gaps remain in relation to infectious diseases with a high clinical and societal impact, such as tuberculosis and malaria.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: International Journal of Infectious Diseases - Volume 43, February 2016, Pages 103–110
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