IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/sprchp/978-3-031-96286-8_108.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

The Important Role of Health Literacy in Integrated Care

In: Handbook of Integrated Care

Author

Listed:
  • Anna-Sophia Beese

    (Careum Zentrum für Gesundheitskompetenz)

  • Saskia Maria De Gani

    (Kalaidos University of Applied Sciences
    University of Zurich, University Hospital Zurich
    Careum Foundation)

Abstract

This chapter explores the vital role of health literacy in the implementation of integrated care, especially in the face of growing complexity and interconnected global crises. It argues that strengthening health literacy at individual, professional, organizational, and systemic levels is essential to empower people to find, understand, appraise, and apply health-related information effectively. Health literacy is conceptualized as a dynamic set of competencies that enables people to manage their and others health and well-being. The chapter presents theoretical foundations and best practice examples and offers recommendations for policy and practice to support health literacy development. It emphasizes that integrated care cannot be sustainably achieved without robust health literacy—and conversely, integrated care can foster health literacy across various levels.

Suggested Citation

  • Anna-Sophia Beese & Saskia Maria De Gani, 2025. "The Important Role of Health Literacy in Integrated Care," Springer Books, in: Volker Amelung & Viktoria Stein & Esther Suter & Nicholas Goodwin & Ran Balicer & Anna-Sophia Beese (ed.), Handbook of Integrated Care, edition 0, chapter 14, pages 245-260, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-031-96286-8_108
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-96286-8_108
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a
    for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-031-96286-8_108. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.