Digital health literacy as a super determinant of health: More than simply the sum of its parts

Robin van Kessel; Brian Li Han Wong; Timo Clemens; Helmut Brand

doi:10.1016/j.invent.2022.100500

Digital health literacy as a super determinant of health: More than simply the sum of its parts

Robin van Kessel^*, Brian Li Han Wong, Timo Clemens, Helmut Brand

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

•Civic literacy refers to the ability to engage meaningfully with one's community.•Digital, health, and civic literacy are key predictors for digital health literacy.•The extent to which these three affect digital health literacy remains unclear.•Building digital health literacy is vital to limit inequalities from expanding.

Original language	English
Article number	100500
Number of pages	3
Journal	Internet Interventions
Volume	27
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.invent.2022.100500
Publication status	Published - Mar 2022

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