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Health 'is not rocket science': the general, nutritional, and oral health literacy of Portuguese adolescents

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dc.contributor.authorAlmeida, Cristina Vaz de
dc.contributor.authorCosta, Vânia
dc.contributor.authorMontaño Rodríguez, Sandra Lucia
dc.contributor.authorRodrigues, Patrícia
dc.contributor.authorRodrigues, Manuela
dc.contributor.authorRibeiro Reis, Bruno Ribeiro
dc.contributor.authorBelim, Célia
dc.date.accessioned2025-08-29T10:02:38Z
dc.date.available2025-08-29T10:02:38Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractHealth literacy is a European public health challenge that should be taken seriously by policymakers, and the health literacy agenda in Europe needs to be accelerated. The World Health Organization (WHO) considers health literacy to be the level of knowledge, social skills, confidence, motivation, and competence to access, understand, and appraise health information. It comprises a set of strategies to improve health and well-being across the lifespan, from individual health literacy to organizational and public health literacy. Health literacy development begins in childhood and adolescence, where it should be supported in an integrated, inclusive, and multidisciplinary approach, promoting and developing competencies and, therefore, knowledge, skills, and attributes. Health literacy encompasses different areas of health, such as oral health and nutrition. In Europe, eight countries participated in the European health literacy questionnaire (HLS-EU 12) in 2014: Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Greece, Ireland, the Netherlands, Poland, and Spain. Among the results obtained with random samples in the European population, at least one in ten (12%) registered insufficient health literacy, and nearly one in two (47%) had limited (insufficient or problematic) health literacy. The distribution of levels differed substantially across countries (29–62%). The HLS-EU contains several questions specifically about food and nutrition, but only in the HLS-PT, translated by Saboga-Nunes et al. and applied in Portugal, where a concern about oral health, including nutrition, is evident.por
dc.identifier.citationAlmeida CV, Costa V, Montaño Rodríguez SL, Rodrigues P, Rodrigues M, Reis BM, et al. Health ‘is not rocket science’: the general, nutritional, and oral health literacy of Portuguese adolescents. In: Global perspectives on children’s health literacy: intersections between health, education and community. Springer; 2024. p. 191-204.
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/978-3-031-63840-4_14
dc.identifier.isbn9783031638398
dc.identifier.isbn9783031638404
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.21/22054
dc.language.isoeng
dc.peerreviewedyes
dc.publisherSpringer International Publishing
dc.relation.hasversionhttps://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-63840-4_14
dc.relation.ispartofGlobal Perspectives on Children's Health Literacy
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectHealth literacy
dc.subjectHealth inequalities
dc.subjectOral health
dc.subjectNutritional health
dc.subjectPortugal
dc.titleHealth 'is not rocket science': the general, nutritional, and oral health literacy of Portuguese adolescentseng
dc.typebook part
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oaire.citation.endPage204
oaire.citation.startPage191
oaire.citation.titleGlobal perspectives on children’s health literacy: intersections between health, education and community
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