Background Current health policies emphasize the need for an equitable doctor-patient
relationship, and this requires a certain level of patient empowerment. However, a …

Objectives The concepts of patient empowerment, patient participation and patient-
centeredness have been introduced as part of the trend towards a more participatory health …

Background Children and young people constitute a core target group for health literacy
research and practice: during childhood and youth, fundamental cognitive, physical and …

The concept of 'health literacy'refers to the personal and relational factors that affect a
person's ability to acquire, understand and use information about health and health services …

Background Empirical evidence on how health literacy affects diabetes outcomes is
inconsistent. The purpose of this meta-analysis was to quantitatively summarize the findings …

Background Recent years have witnessed a dramatic increase in consumer online health
information seeking. The quality of online health information, however, remains …

Background: Mobile health (mHealth) defines the support and practice of health care using
mobile devices and promises to improve the current treatment situation of patients with …

Objectives Health literacy is commonly associated with many of the antecedents of health
disparities. Yet the precise nature of the relationship between health literacy and disparities …

When looking for health information, many people turn to the Internet. Searching for online
health information (OHI), however, also involves the risk of confirmation bias by means of …

Inadequate health literacy (HL) is associated with impaired healthcare choices leading to
poor quality-of-care. Our primary purpose was to estimate the prevalence of inadequate HL …