New articles about health literacy

The priced journal Health Information and Libraries Journal (vol. 40 issue 1, 2023) has a special issue on health literacy:
- Health literacy and consumer health information by Maria J. Grant PhD (Editorial; Open access)
- Patient education information material assessment criteria: A scoping review by Khadijeh Ahmadzadeh MSc, Masoud Bahrami PhD, Firoozeh Zare-Farashbandi PhD, Payman Adibi Md-PhD, Mohammad Ali Boroumand MSc, Alireza Rahimi PhD
- A survey of health information seeking by cancer patients indicates some problems over medical explanations and terminology by Mahmut Akbolat PhD, Mustafa Amarat PhD, Özgün Ünal PhD, Gülcan Şantaş PhD - Information seeking behaviour differences indicate which US population groups lack information about human papilloma virus and associated cancer risks by Bahareh Ansari MBA
- Caregivers of children feel confident about using the Internet for health information by Emma Delemere M.sc, Rebecca Maguire PhD CPsychol
- Study of health information needs among adolescents in Croatia shows distinct gender differences in information seeking behaviour by Ivana Martinović PhD, Sung Un Kim PhD, Snježana Stanarević Katavić PhD
- Few changes shown in cancer information-seeking behaviour among young adults in China between 2012 and 2017 by Shaohai Jiang PhD, Piper Liping Liu PhD
- The prevalence of low health literacy in undergraduate students in Pakistan by Aziz-ur Rehman PhD, Salman Bin Naeem PhD, Anthony Faiola PhD
Go to https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14711842/2023/40/1
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