The European Health Literacy Survey - Iuhpe ...

Rationale for the HLS-EU project
• The increasing recognition of health literacy as a
public health goal.
• The need of re-orientating health systems to be
more health literacy friendly.
• The need to expand the "traditional", medical
oriented conceptualization of health literacy towards
a broader, health promotion oriented concept.
• The lack of appropriate measurement tools to
capture this broader conceptualization.
• Low literacy contributes to inequalities and health
literacy to health inequalities
Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences