Approaches to assessment of community level health literacy: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT: Addressing health literacy at the community level can provide the potential for improving health knowledge, skills, and behaviours that can ultimately lead to better health outcomes. While many tools exist for measuring individual and disease-specific health literacy, community and critical health literacy have received less attention. The review focuses on geographic communities and includes the concepts of 'health literacy', 'critical health literacy', and 'assessment'. Key information sources for the review were Scopus, EMBASE, MEDLINE, CINAHL, ERIC, and PsycINFO, along with Google Scholar for grey literature. Hand searches of reference lists from included studies were also conducted. The search was limited to articles published between 1 January 2010, and 1 June 2023, with no restricti

SUBMITTER: McKenna VB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12543020 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature