Health literacy: libraries and librarians for the well-being of citizens

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  • Vittorio Ponzani Istituto superiore di sanità, Roma

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2426/aibstudi-11751

Keywords:

health literacy, information literacy, hospital libraries

Abstract

With health literacy we mean the skill to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions and to improve health care.
Libraries and librarians play an important role promoting health literacy and creating information tools that allow everybody to access certified and reliable information, written in a very clear language and easily comprehensible even by citizens without adequate health literacy.

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Published

2018-03-01

How to Cite

Ponzani, V. (2018). Health literacy: libraries and librarians for the well-being of citizens. AIB Studi, 57(3). https://doi.org/10.2426/aibstudi-11751

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