Health literacy of children and adolescents: Conceptual approaches and developmental considerations

Bröder, Janine; Carvalho, Graça Simões de

doi:10.51952/9781447344520.ch003

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“…While HL and health promotion are elements of public health, and cannot redress all inequities in society, possessing HL assets can help support individuals to reach their full potential in education and health, which can in turn reduce health disparities and uphold human rights (Lindström and Eriksson, 2011). As discussed above (e.g., Broder and Carvalho, 2019; Velardo and Drummond, 2017), there seems to exist a clear ethical imperative, expressed in terms of a moral duty to children, to support HL development. Further, as this duty is owed to all children, it will best be discharged through the institution of formal education.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The choice of pedagogy and the way health topics are taught (student-centred, integrated) is also important. Childhood is the most appropriate time to develop HL (Broder and Carvalho, 2019), and is an important predictor of adult HL (Velardo and Drummond, 2017). Improving HL in childhood has the potential to improve the health trajectory of the child throughout their lifespan and may also reduce intergenerational health and social inequities.…”

Section: The Communitarian Principlementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Primary schools provide an ideal context for HL development to occur. They offer an accessible setting (Sykes and Wills, 2019), teachers are likely to be attuned to the needs of their students (Broder and Carvalho, 2019), and HL can be taught through education (Paakkari and Paakkari, 2012). Despite HL being a key component of many primary school curricula internationally, evidence suggests that HL is undertaught (Broder and Carvalho, 2019; Nash et al, 2021a).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…They offer an accessible setting (Sykes and Wills, 2019), teachers are likely to be attuned to the needs of their students (Broder and Carvalho, 2019), and HL can be taught through education (Paakkari and Paakkari, 2012). Despite HL being a key component of many primary school curricula internationally, evidence suggests that HL is undertaught (Broder and Carvalho, 2019; Nash et al, 2021a). This may be due to several factors, including lack of teacher preparedness and perceived lack of time (Otten et al, 2022).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Developing health literacy in childhood has been clearly established as important, and schools have been recognised as optimal settings to promote the asset (Broder and Carvalho, 2019; Velardo and Drummond, 2017). This has been evidenced in international curricula (e.g., the Australian Curriculum, Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority, 2014).…”

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The imperative to develop health literacy: An ethical evaluation of HealthLit4Kids

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J Child Health Care

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An imperative exists to promote health literacy (HL) development in today’s young people. Included in curricula worldwide, health literacy has been recognised as a social determinant in its own right, which has the potential to redress inequity and positively impact health and educational outcomes. While it has been shown that schools provide an ideal setting to support HL development, available evidence suggests that health may be undertaught in primary schools, and further resources are required to support educators’ inclusion of HL in their lessons. The aims of this paper were to (1) highlight the ethical imperative to promote HL through schools and (2) provide an ethical evaluation of an existing HL intervention. Spike’s (2018) four principles for public health ethics were employed as a framework for evaluating a program’s ethical status and suitability in the school setting. In this paper, one program, HealthLit4Kids, is evaluated according to Spike’s framework, and shown to be an ethically acceptable approach to foster HL in young people. These results model how other HL programs may be evaluated and offer critical insights concerning how HL could be promoted in an ethically acceptable manner in the classroom.

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