Health Literacy as a Shared Capacity: Does the Health Literacy of a Country Influence the Health Disparities among Immigrants?

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作者
Lorini, Chiara [1 ]
Caini, Saverio [2 ]
Ierardi, Francesca [3 ]
Bachini, Letizia [3 ]
Gemmi, Fabrizio [3 ]
Bonaccorsi, Guglielmo [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Florence, Dept Hlth Sci, I-50134 Florence, Italy
[2] Inst Canc Res Prevent & Clin Network ISPRO, I-50139 Florence, Italy
[3] Reg Hlth Agcy Tuscany, Qual & Equity Unit, I-50141 Florence, Italy
关键词
health inequalities; health literacy; immigrant; population; INTEGRATION; INEQUALITY; COMMUNITY;
D O I
10.3390/ijerph17041149
中图分类号
X [环境科学、安全科学];
学科分类号
08 ; 0830 ;
摘要
Health literacy (HL) is an individual ability as well as a distributed resource available within an individual's social network. We performed an explorative study assessing the role of HL as the country-level ecological variable in predicting the health disparities among immigrants. Country-level HL data were obtained from the publicly available first European Health Literacy Survey reports. Individual-level data on citizenship, perceived health status, body mass index, smoking habits, physical activity and attendance at breast and cervical cancer screening were extracted from the European Health Interview Survey of Eurostat. Data from both sources were obtained for Austria, Bulgaria, Greece, Poland and Spain. The country-specific odds ratio (OR) for the association between the participants' citizenship and other individual health-relevant characteristics was pooled into summary OR using random-effects models. Meta-regression was used to explore whether the HL of a country could explain part of the between-countries heterogeneity. Results: For the perceived health status, nutritional status and attendance at cervical cancer screening, the lower was the country-level HL (as ecological variable), the higher were the health inequalities relating to citizenship. The results of our exploratory research suggest that improving the population HL may help mitigate health inequalities between residents and migrants.
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