How socioeconomically disadvantaged people access, understand, appraise, and apply health information: A qualitative study exploring health literacy skills.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Health literacy, or a person's competence to access, understand, appraise and apply health information, can be considered a mediating factor between socioeconomic characteristics and health disparities. Socioeconomically disadvantaged people in particular present with less health literacy skills. To develop targeted interventions tailored to their real needs, it is important to understand how they function and what difficulties they encounter when dealing with health information. The purpose of this study was to explore their experiences when accessing, understanding, appraising, and applying health information in their everyday lives.

Methods

Semi-structured face-to-face interviews were conducted with 12 socioeconomically disadvantaged adults living in the commun

SUBMITTER: Stormacq C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10411818 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature