Measuring digital health literacy and its associations with determinants and health outcomes in 13 countries
The study shows that considerable proportions of the general adult populations across countries in Europe have limited DHL skills. The level of DHL has direct potential consequences for some forms of health service utilization, in some countries. Implications of the study include recommendations for improving digital health literacy, promoting organizational health literacy and quality assurance for digital health information and resources.
Authors
- Miguel Arriaga (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9183-9121)
- Christa Straßmayr (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0414-391X)
- Hanne Søberg Finbråten (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8911-2102)
- Christopher Le (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6150-0629)
- Carlota Ribeiro da Silva
- Mitja Vrdelja (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2486-9053)
- Saskia Maria De Gani (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7992-7209)
- Thomas Link
- Henrik Bøggild (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8934-5002)
- Robert Griebler
- Dominika Mikšová (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8198-2189)
- Sarah Gibney (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6298-8921)
- Øystein Guttersrud (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8771-1021)
- Lucy Bruton
- Lennert Griese (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9900-2967)
- Zdeněk Kučera (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6105-7033)
- Diane Levin‐Zamir (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8852-5554)
- Julien Mancini (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9500-8598)
- Doris Schaeffer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9238-6865)
- Éva Bíró (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0131-8147)
- Jürgen M. Pelikan
- Kristine Sørensen
- Stephan Van den Broucke
- Zuzana Klocháňová
Institutions
- University of Debrecen (HU)
- Norwegian Directorate of Health (NO)
- Inserm (FR)
- OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University (NO)
- University of Oslo (NO)
- Bielefeld University (DE)
- Aix-Marseille Université (FR)
- Universidade Católica Portuguesa (PT)
- Kalaidos University of Applied Sciences (CH)
- University of Inland Norway (NO)
- National Institute of Public Health (SI)
- Gesundheit Österreich (AT)
- Department of Health (IE)
- Direção Geral do Território (PT)
- Global Health Literacy Academy (DK)
- Economic & Social Sciences, Health Systems & Medical Informatics (FR)
- Centre for Advanced Study (NO)
- Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (FR)
- Clalit Health Services (IL)
- Aalborg University (DK)
- University of Haifa (IL)
- UCLouvain (BE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Frontiers in Public Health
- Published
- 2025-03-20
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2025.1472706
- Citations
- 8
- Primary Topic
- Health Literacy and Information Accessibility
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 22.52
Funders
- European Commission
- Public Health Agency
- Bundesamt für Gesundheit
- Aalborg Universitet
- Bundesministerium für Gesundheit
- Ministero della Salute
- Helse- og Omsorgsdepartementet
- Magyar Tudományos Akadémia
- Istituto Superiore di Sanità
- Ligue Contre le Cancer
- University of Haifa
- Emberi Eroforrások Minisztériuma
- Clalit Health Services
- Helsedirektoratet
- Høgskolen i Innlandet
- Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation