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Health Promotion International, Vol. 17, No. 1, 1-2, March 2002
© Oxford University Press 2002

EDITORIAL

Health literacy: a search for new categories

Ilona Kickbusch, Chair, Editorial Board

A series of papers have been published in Health Promotion International discussing the concept of health literacy. The starting point of the debate was a contribution by Don Nutbeam proposing ‘health literacy’ as a key outcome measure of health promotion, and suggesting that measures could be developed for three types or three domains of health literacy: ‘functional health literacy’, ‘interactive health literacy’ and ‘critical health literacy’ (Nutbeam, 2000Go). At a workshop organized on the occasion of the XVII World Conference on Health Promotion and Education in Paris in July 2001, a very stimulating discussion ensued trying to gauge the usefulness of such a . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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