There is great enthusiasm over the use of emerging interactive health information technologies-often referred to as eHealth-and the potential these technologies

Health literacy-the ability for individuals to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services to facilitate appropriate health decisions-

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Health literacy addresses a range of social dimensions of health, including knowledge, navigation and communicatio

This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Health Literacy in Context—Settings, Media, and Populations" that was published in IJERPH

Increasing health literacy among patients is a difficult task as medical jargon and healthcare directions can be overwhelming and difficult to comprehend. In to