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Health Literacy in the Context of Health Inequalities: A Framing and a Research Review

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In this chapter, we provide a general overview of the current state of health literacy research. In doing so, we take the liberty of proceeding more selectively and more broadly than is now the case with the systematic literature reviews based on the PRISMA standard that are customary in professional journals. On the one hand, because the subject area of health literacy is presented much more comprehensively than in a methodologically meaningful approach of a meta-analysis, which usually involves a compilation of the efficacy of specific active substances or interventions.

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  1. 1.

    The literature on the state of research reported here does not claim to be exhaustive. It would certainly be possible to draw on considerably more relevant studies. Nevertheless, the works cited provide a reasonable impression of the subject areas and basic motives of health inequality research.

  2. 2.

    It should at least be mentioned in passing that the Social Literacy or New Literacy Studies approach (cf. Street 1984, 2003), which takes a different view of written language competencies than is common in the now dominant PISA competency tradition, has hardly been utilised in health literacy research to date; how fruitful such a perspective can be for health literacy research becomes clear in Papen (2005, 2008, 2009). More recent connections can be found in Samerski (2019), Pinheiro (2019), Bauer (2019a), Pinheiro et al. (2021).

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    We are very sceptical here as to whether the concept of objectivity in performance measurements is tenable from a scientific and epistemological point of view, but we do not wish to go into this aspect in any further detail here – see Chap. 4.

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