Health literacy: An essential element of health care professionalism and resilience

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Abstract

This report discusses the importance of incorporating health literacy into health care professionalism and resilience. It defines health care management professionalism and its subcomponents. The report addresses the need for an improved definition of health care management professionalism. The inclusion of health literacy is not only important to the improved definition, but also to health care management education competencies. The report builds on the move towards competency-based education as a strategy to address health literacy in the areas of professionalism and ethics for healthcare professionals. This could lead to building healthcare systems with healthcare professionals who encompass high levels of professionalism as well as incorporating tools to combat burnout and increasing resilience.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)207-213
Number of pages7
JournalInformation Services and Use
Volume38
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2019
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 - IOS Press and the authors.

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • Information Systems
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Library and Information Sciences

Keywords

  • Health literacy
  • burnout
  • health care management
  • health care professionalism
  • resilience

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