This issue of Patient Education and Counseling presents two
original articles that highlight an area of study that is not often
addressed: social influence factors that extend the effects of a
person’s health literacy on other individuals. The question to be
asked in this context is whether a person’s health literacy has the
potential to affect health behavior of other persons, their health
status, their care and outcomes. This is immediately relevant for
anybody who is dependent on someone else, such as children are
dependent on their parents and vice versa elderly persons become
dependent of caregivers, most often their children. But actually
social influence of health literacy is conceivable in other
constellations, for instance within couples. Is it possible that the
spouse’s health literacy affects health behavior and outcomes of a
person? Would it be possible that your spouse’s high level of health
literacy balances out your own low level? Or, vice versa, could it be
that your partner’s lower level of health literacy prevents your own
high level from attaining its usual benefits? And how does gender
affect these relationships?
This issue of Patient Education and Counseling presents two
original articles that highlight an area of study that is not often
addressed: social influence factors that extend the effects of a
person’s health literacy on other individuals. The question to be
asked in this context is whether a person’s health literacy has the
potential to affect health behavior of other persons, their health
status, their care and outcomes. This is immediately relevant for
anybody who is dependent on someone else, such as children are
dependent on their parents and vice versa elderly persons become
dependent of caregivers, most often their children. But actually
social influence of health literacy is conceivable in other
constellations, for instance within couples. Is it possible that the
spouse’s health literacy affects health behavior and outcomes of a
person? Would it be possible that your spouse’s high level of health
literacy balances out your own low level? Or, vice versa, could it be
that your partner’s lower level of health literacy prevents your own
high level from attaining its usual benefits? And how does gender
affect these relationships?
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