A Review of Health Literacy and Its Relationship to Nutrition Education

Authors

Heather Diane Gibbs, Olivet Nazarene UniversityFollow
Karen Chapman-Novakofski, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Fall 2012

Scholarship Domain(s)

Scholarship of Discovery

Abstract

Health literacy has emerged as a focus of increasing research in the medical literature, yet it has received little attention in the nutrition literature. Because nutrition practice is an important sector of the health care environment and reduced health literacy confers known health consequences, dietitians should be equipped with an understanding of how health literacy extends to nutritional care. Identification instruments that are available fail to provide an understanding of nutrition literacy. Nutrition literacy may include knowledge of nutrition principles and nutrition skills. Additional research into the development of appropriate nutrition literacy tools and their application is needed.

Comments

Post-print of article published in the October-December 2012 issue of Topics in Clinical Nutrition.

Recommended Citation

Gibbs, Heather, and Karen Chapman-Novakofski. "A Review of Health Literacy and Its Relationship to Nutrition Education." Topics in Clinical Nutrition 27.4 (2012): 325-333.