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Health Literacy in a Nutshell - Don Nutbeam

Health Literacy in a Nutshell

By: Don Nutbeam, Danielle Muscat

9 October 2023

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Health Literacy in a Nutshell will help you understand how to be a better communicator, and how to work more effectively with patients and communities in helping them to find, understand and use health information to make good decisions about their health.

Health Literacy in a Nutshell is an essential resource for students and frontline practitioners who want to improve their understanding of health literacy and health communication. This book provides a useful prompt on key issues, as well as guidance on how to organise and deliver interventions to improve health literacy.

Written by internationally recognised leaders in the field, this compact, easy-to-use guide provides pragmatic advice and guidance. It draws upon the best available scientific evidence with numerous practical examples of effective communication to improve health literacy among patients and community populations.

Features:

  • An introduction to health literacy concepts and definitions
  • Practical communication tools for frontline health workers
  • Strategies for improving health literacy in communities
  • Mastering digital health communication
  • Measurement and monitoring of health literacy
  • The role of health literacy in improving equity in health

This book is highly recommended for busy students and health practitioners, including experienced researchers and practitioners, who want to become better communicators and work more effectively with individuals and communities in helping them to find, understand, appraise and apply health information.

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