Special Issue on Equity and Health Literacy

The Australian Health Promotion Association acknowledges the funding provided by the Northern Territory Primary Health Network (NTPHN) to collate and produce this special issue dedicated to equity and health literacy.

Special Issue on Equity and Health Literacy

Professor James Smith

Editor-in-Chief, Health Promotion Journal of Australia

 

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Equity and health literacy: Using emerging evidence to inform the development of the National Preventive Health Strategy

James A. Smith, Kalinda Griffiths, Rosie Nash, Shandell Elmer, Sarah Ireland, Cassandra J. C. Wright, Himanshu Gupta, 
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Can addressing food literacy across the life cycle improve the health of vulnerable populations? A case study approach

Lucy M. Butcher, Julia R. Platts, Nerissa Le, Michelle M. McIntosh, Claire A. Celenza, Frances Foulkes-Taylor, 
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HealthLit4Kids: Supporting schools to be health literacy responsive organisations

Shandell Elmer, Rose Nash, Nenagh Kemp, Cheryn Coleman, Martina Wyss, Julie Roach, 
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Public libraries as health literate multi‐purpose workspaces for improving health literacy

Lucio Naccarella, Jacqui Horwood, 
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Engaging “hard-to-reach” men in health promotion using the OPHELIA principles: Participants' perspectives

Leigh Kinsman, Jan Radford, Shandell Elmer, Kathryn Ogden, Sarah Randles, Alycia Jacob, Denise Delphin, Nettie Burr, Mick Goss, 
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Health literacy needs in weight management of women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome

Siew Lim, Caroline A. Smith, Michael F. Costello, Freya MacMillan, Lisa Moran, Helena Teede, Carolyn Ee, 
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Reducing inequities among adult female migrants at higher risk for drowning in Australia: The value of swimming and water safety programs

Stacey M. Willcox-Pidgeon, Richard C. Franklin, Sue Devine, Peter A. Leggat, Justin Scarr, 
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‘Not everybody is an internet person’: Barriers for menopause‐related health literacy among immigrant women from the Horn of Africa nations

Karin A. Stanzel MPH, Karin Hammarberg PhD, Jane Fisher PhD, 
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Experiences of health service literacy and access amongst Australian young adults from migrant backgrounds

Gianina Raymundo, Jennifer Smith-Merry, Justin McNab, 
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The relationship of health literacy, wellbeing and religious beliefs in neglected and unequal contexts—Results of a survey study in central Afghanistan

Stefanie Harsch, Asadullah Jawid, M Ebrahim Jawid, Luis Saboga Nunes, Diana Sahrai, Uwe H. Bittlingmayer, 
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Development and evaluation of a health literacy training program for allied health professionals: A pre‐post study assessing impact and implementation outcomes

Danielle M. Muscat, Dragana Ceprnja, Kim Hobbs, Jodi-Anne Gibson, Caron Blumenthal, Rula Milad, Chris Burns, Timothea Lau, Victoria Flood, 
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Student‐driven partnerships enhancing oral health literacy

Clinton Kempster, Jennifer Gray, Kyla Burman, 
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Health literacy, digital health literacy and the implementation of digital health technologies in cancer care: the need for a strategic approach

Emma Kemp, Joshua Trigg, Lisa Beatty, Chris Christensen, Haryana M. Dhillon, Anthony Maeder, Patricia A. H. Williams, Bogda Koczwara, 
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Supporting patients to be involved in decisions about their health and care: Development of a best practice health literacy App for Australian adults living with Chronic Kidney Disease

Danielle Marie Muscat, Kelly Lambert, Heather Shepherd, Kirsten J. McCaffery, Stephanie Zwi, Na Liu, Kamal Sud, John Saunders, Emma O’Lone, Jinman Kim, Aphra Robbins, Angela C. Webster, 
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A pilot study of adolescent health literacy research in Melbourne: Implementation and reflections

Shuaijun Guo, Elise Davis, Rebecca Armstrong, Xiaoming Yu, Lucio Naccarella, 
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Dissonances in communication with sexual health consumers in an inner‐Sydney sexual health clinic in relation to health literacy: A mixed‐methods study

Heather McCormack, Sally Nathan, Rick Varma, Bridget Haire, 
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Healthier Together: Co-design of a culturally tailored childhood obesity community prevention program for Māori & Pacific Islander children and families

Jessica Hardt, Oliver J. Canfell, Jacqueline L. Walker, Kerri-Lyn Webb, Sebastien Brignano, Tevita Peu, Daphne Santos, Kirstine Kira, Robyn Littlewood, 
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Aboriginal patient and interpreter perspectives on the delivery of culturally safe hospital‐based care

Vincent Mithen, Vicki Kerrigan, Galathi Dhurrkay, Talena Morgan, Natasha Keilor, Craig Castillon, Marita Hefler, Anna P. Ralph, 
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Finding a pathway and making it strong: Learning from Yolŋu about meaningful health education in a remote Indigenous Australian context

Anne Lowell, Elaine Läwurrpa Maypilama, Rosemary Gundjarranbuy, 
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Using co‐design to develop a culturally responsive reproductive health learning resource for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth

Emily Gilbert, Raelene Collins, Vanya Webster, Nicole Boyd, Louise Maple-Brown, Jacqueline Boyle, Heidi Smith-Vaughan, 
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Using social media in health literacy research: A promising example involving Facebook with young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander males from the Top End of the Northern Territory

James A. Smith, Anthony Merlino, Ben Christie, Mick Adams, Jason Bonson, Richard H. Osborne, Murray Drummond, Barry Judd, David Aanundsen, Jesse Fleay, Himanshu Gupta, 
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“We are sacred”: An intercultural and multilingual approach to understanding reproductive health literacy for Yolŋu girls and women in remote Northern Australia

Sarah Ireland, Elaine L. Maypilama, 
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Stay Strong: Aboriginal leaders deliver COVID‐19 health messages

Vicki Kerrigan, Anne Marie Lee, Anna P. Ralph, Paul D. Lawton, 

Stay Strong: Aboriginal leaders deliver COVID‐19 health messages by Vicki Kerrigan, Anne Marie Lee, Anna P. Ralph, Paul D. Lawton



Development and evaluation of a health literacy training program for allied health professionals: A pre‐post study assessing impact and implementation outcomes by Danielle M. Muscat, Dragana Ceprnja, Kim Hobbs, Jodi‐Anne Gibson, Caron Blumenthal, Rula Milad, Chris Burns, Timothea Lau, Victoria Flood



Health literacy needs in weight management of women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome by Siew Lim, Caroline A. Smith, Michael F. Costello, Freya MacMillan, Lisa Moran, Helena Teede, Carolyn Ee




Finding a pathway and making it strong: Learning from Yolŋu about meaningful health education in a remote Indigenous Australian context by Anne Lowell, Elaine Läwurrpa Maypilama, Rosemary Gundjarranbuy



Engaging “hard‐to‐reach” men in health promotion using the OPHELIA principles: Participants' perspectives by Leigh Kinsman, Jan Radford, Shandell Elmer, Kathryn Ogden, Sarah Randles, Alycia Jacob, Denise Delphin, Nettie Burr, Mick Goss



Health literacy, digital health literacy and the implementation of digital health technologies in cancer care: the need for a strategic approach by Emma Kemp, Joshua Trigg, Lisa Beatty, Chris Christensen, Haryana M. Dhillon, Anthony Maeder, Patricia A. H. Williams, Bogda Koczwara


Experiences of health service literacy and access amongst Australian young adults from migrant backgrounds by Gianina Raymundo, Jennifer Smith‐Merry, Justin McNab


‘Not everybody is an internet person’: Barriers for menopause‐related health literacy among immigrant women from the Horn of Africa nations by Karin A. Stanzel MPH, Karin Hammarberg PhD, Jane Fisher PhD


Reducing inequities among adult female migrants at higher risk for drowning in Australia: The value of swimming and water safety programs by Stacey M. Willcox‐Pidgeon, Richard C. Franklin, Sue Devine, Peter A. Leggat, Justin Scarr