Which criteria characterize a health literate health care organization? - a scoping review on organizational health literacy.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Organizational health literacy (OHL) aims to respond to the health literacy needs of patients by improving health information and services and making them easier to understand, access, and apply. This scoping review primarily maps criteria characterizing health literate health care organizations. Secondary outcomes are the concepts and terminologies underlying these criteria as well as instruments to measure them.

Methods

The review was carried out following the JBI Manual on scoping reviews. The databases CINAHL, Cochrane Library, JSTOR, PsycINFO, PubMed, Web of Science Core Collection, and Wiley Online Library were searched in July 2020. Three researchers screened the records and extracted the data. The results were synthesized systematically and descriptively.<

SUBMITTER: Bremer D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8259028 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature