Organizational health literacy of schools in Germany: results of a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT: A social gradient in health literacy is prevalent in children and adolescents, with those from lower socioeconomic backgrounds often having lower levels. Interventions aiming at an entire setting, such as the organizational health literacy approach, seem promising to tackle these inequities. Schools represent unique environments to implement such interventions. The HeLit-Schools project aimed at developing an organizational health literacy framework for schools. The framework contains eight quality standards, each underpinned by six indicators, and was translated into a self-assessment tool (OHLS-Q). In this cross-sectional study, the German version of the OHLS-Q was used to assess the implementation status of organizational health literacy in schools in Germany for the first time. School

SUBMITTER: Kirchhoff S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12318714 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature