Health information literacy among children at Reading Community in Sumedang Regency

Children are vulnerable to diseases due to unhealthy living habits so children need correct health information for healthy living behavior. The reading community as a store and manager of knowledge has health information services for children. Three reading community in Sumedang Regency provide health-themed books and provide health-themed literacy activities. This study aims to determine health information literacy in children at reading community in Sumedang Regency. The research method used descriptive qualitative on children from three (3) reading community in Sumedang Regency, consist of Lingkaran Cahaya, Bina Kreasi Muda, and Pabukon Ngadongeng Reading community. The results showed that children from reading community already know the need for health information but children do not know the correct process in its implementation. Three of reading community have a variety of health reading such as books, comics, and magazines, they have different strategies in planning health information to children, and they are done according to the competence or interest of the users. Three reading community collect health information from reading and activity-based collaboration, they read comprehension as an evaluation process in health information literacy, and they conducted reviews of activities or discussions from reading results in the form of read aloud and think aloud. Two reading community store information in a master book and catalog and promote health information activities using social media. Three reading community are still limited in providing access to health information, but these three of reading community already have innovations in practicing health information in the form of literacy activities.