Health literacy and diabetes: challenges and trends

Dulce Nascimento do Ó; Ana Rita Goes; João Filipe Raposo; Isabel Loureiro

doi:10.1108/978-1-83753-598-920231006

Health literacy and diabetes: challenges and trends

Dulce Nascimento do Ó, Ana Rita Goes, João Filipe Raposo, Isabel Loureiro

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Abstract

Diabetes is a chronic and challenging disease and requires personal daily self-management decisions and skills. For that, it is necessary that patients have sufficient information and health literacy to make the right choices and decisions in their self-care. Sequentially, health literacy has great relevance and influence in the daily lives of people with diabetes, since it encompasses the necessary skills to manage disease and health. Health literacy can be a relevant factor to consider when tackling diabetes self-management. Thus, for the prevention and treatment of diabetes, it is essential to promote individual health literacy. The quality of communication and patient-centred communication style seems to be a key aspect for the health literacy.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Technology-enhanced healthcare education
Subtitle of host publication	transformative learning for patient-centric health
Editors	Cristina Vaz de Almeida, Miltiadis D. Lytras
Publisher	Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
Pages	75-82
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	9781837535989
ISBN (Print)	9781837535996
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83753-598-920231006
Publication status	Published - 27 Nov 2023

Keywords

Chronic diseases
Communication
Diabetes
Health literacy
Person-centred collaborative care
Self-management

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Health literacy and diabetes: challenges and trends. / do Ó, Dulce Nascimento ; Goes, Ana Rita ; Raposo, João Filipe et al.
Technology-enhanced healthcare education: transformative learning for patient-centric health. ed. / Cristina Vaz de Almeida; Miltiadis D. Lytras. Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., 2023. p. 75-82.

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Health literacy and diabetes: challenges and trends

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