Key concepts for informed health choices: Where's the evidence?

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Informed Health Choices (IHC) Key Concepts is a framework that provides a basis for developing educational resources and evaluating people's ability to think critically about health actions. We developed the original Key Concepts framework by reviewing texts and checklists for the public, journalists, and health professionals and collecting structured feedback from an international advisory group. We revised the original 2015 framework yearly from 2016 to 2018 based on feedback and experience using the framework. The objectives of this paper are to describe the development of the framework since 2018 and summarise their basis.

Methods

For the 2019 version, we responded to feedback on the 2018 version. For the current 2022 version, in addition to responding to

SUBMITTER: Oxman AD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10623542 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature