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

Internet Interv. 2022 Feb 7:27:100500. doi: 10.1016/j.invent.2022.100500. eCollection 2022 Mar.

Authors

Robin van Kessel^{1

2

3}, Brian Li Han Wong^{3

4

5}, Timo Clemens¹, Helmut Brand^{1

6}

Affiliations

¹ Department of International Health, Care and Public Health Research Institute (CAPHRI), Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, the Netherlands.
² Studio Europa, Maastricht University, the Netherlands.
³ Research Committee, Global Health Workforce Network (GHWN) Youth Hub, World Health Organization, Switzerland.
⁴ The Lancet and Financial Times Commission on Governing Health Futures 2030: Growing up in a digital world, Global Health Centre, The Graduate Institute, Geneva, Switzerland.
⁵ Digital Health Section, European Public Health Association (EUPHA), Utrecht, the Netherlands.
⁶ Prasanna School of Public Health, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karna-taka, India.

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.

Grants and funding

001/WHO_/World Health Organization/International