TY - ECHAP
KW - Age-groups
KW - Health information behavior
KW - Health information literacy
KW - health literacy
KW - information behavior
KW - information literacy
KW - information needs
KW - Information professionals
KW - information sources
KW - Literacies
KW - Literacy
KW - Measuring
KW - Patients.
AU - Heidi Enwald
AU - Kristina Eriksson-Backa
AU - Noora Hirvonen
AU - Anna-Maija Multas
AU - Isto Huvila
AU - David Baker
AU - Lucy Ellis
AB - Health information literacy (HIL) refers to informational competencies needed for recognizing information needs and retrieving, assessing, and using information to make good health decisions. In contrast to other health literacies, its focus is on information behavior and practices. The concept originated in and has been used most often in the field of library and information science. While earlier studies have focused on HIL skills and measuring the level of HIL, recent studies have been influenced by the sociocultural strand of information literacy research emphasizing HIL as a situated, multimodal skillful practice in a sociocultural context rather than an assemblage of individual generic competencies.
BT - Encyclopedia of Libraries, Librarianship, and Information Science
CY - Cambridge, MA
DA - jan
DO - 10.1016/B978-0-323-95689-5.00239-X
N2 - Health information literacy (HIL) refers to informational competencies needed for recognizing information needs and retrieving, assessing, and using information to make good health decisions. In contrast to other health literacies, its focus is on information behavior and practices. The concept originated in and has been used most often in the field of library and information science. While earlier studies have focused on HIL skills and measuring the level of HIL, recent studies have been influenced by the sociocultural strand of information literacy research emphasizing HIL as a situated, multimodal skillful practice in a sociocultural context rather than an assemblage of individual generic competencies.
PB - Academic Press
PP - Cambridge, MA
PY - 2024
SN - 978-0-443-15785-1
SP - 355
EP - 363
T2 - Encyclopedia of Libraries, Librarianship, and Information Science
TI - Health Information Literacy
VL - 2
ER -