{"title":"La littératie en santé : destinée à l’amélioration de la santé ?","authors":"Paul Guingal","doi":"10.3917/spub.242.0013","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Health literacy is a major public health issue. It directly influences the health-related decisions that individuals make. Improved health literacy is also directly correlated with better health. On the basis of this correlation, health literacy has ostensibly taken on the function of improving and maintaining good health. However, there is no evidence that health literacy, and hence the decisions it generates, are aimed at improving health.</p><p><strong>Purpose of the research: </strong>The aim of our study is to describe, using data collected via the Health Literacy Questionnaire (HLQ), the framework underpinning the health literacy in those surveyed. This allows us to verify whether or not this framework is aligned with the objective of promoting or maintaining health.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Health literacy is not governed by the objective of improving health.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Health literacy is not necessarily cultivated in a bid to improve personal health. Health-related decision-making (as a product of health literacy) is governed, at least in part, by other forces than that of the desire to improve health. We need to move beyond the model that reduces health literacy, and therefore health decision-making, to a purely rational and individual process aimed exclusively at promoting or maintaining personal health.</p>","PeriodicalId":49575,"journal":{"name":"Sante Publique","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3000,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Sante Publique","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3917/spub.242.0013","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Introduction: Health literacy is a major public health issue. It directly influences the health-related decisions that individuals make. Improved health literacy is also directly correlated with better health. On the basis of this correlation, health literacy has ostensibly taken on the function of improving and maintaining good health. However, there is no evidence that health literacy, and hence the decisions it generates, are aimed at improving health.
Purpose of the research: The aim of our study is to describe, using data collected via the Health Literacy Questionnaire (HLQ), the framework underpinning the health literacy in those surveyed. This allows us to verify whether or not this framework is aligned with the objective of promoting or maintaining health.
Results: Health literacy is not governed by the objective of improving health.
Conclusions: Health literacy is not necessarily cultivated in a bid to improve personal health. Health-related decision-making (as a product of health literacy) is governed, at least in part, by other forces than that of the desire to improve health. We need to move beyond the model that reduces health literacy, and therefore health decision-making, to a purely rational and individual process aimed exclusively at promoting or maintaining personal health.
期刊介绍:
La revue Santé Publique s’adresse à l’ensemble des acteurs de santé publique qu’ils soient décideurs,
professionnels de santé, acteurs de terrain, chercheurs, enseignants ou formateurs, etc. Elle publie
des travaux de recherche, des évaluations, des analyses d’action, des réflexions sur des interventions
de santé, des opinions, relevant des champs de la santé publique et de l’analyse des services de
soins, des sciences sociales et de l’action sociale.
Santé publique est une revue à comité de lecture, multidisciplinaire et généraliste, qui publie sur
l’ensemble des thèmes de la santé publique parmi lesquels : accès et recours aux soins, déterminants
et inégalités sociales de santé, prévention, éducation pour la santé, promotion de la santé,
organisation des soins, environnement, formation des professionnels de santé, nutrition, politiques
de santé, pratiques professionnelles, qualité des soins, gestion des risques sanitaires, représentation
et santé perçue, santé scolaire, santé et travail, systèmes de santé, systèmes d’information, veille
sanitaire, déterminants de la consommation de soins, organisation et économie des différents
secteurs de production de soins (hôpital, médicament, etc.), évaluation médico-économique
d’activités de soins ou de prévention et de programmes de santé, planification des ressources,
politiques de régulation et de financement, etc