Re-enforce, Not Re-Define Health Literacy-Moving Forward with Health Literacy 2.0

摘要

In the development of Healthy People 2030, a vibrant discussion about a "default new definition" of health literacy emerged. We coauthored the definition used in Healthy People 2010 and 2020, which was accepted by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) consensus committee, adopted by HHS, and incorporated into the Affordable Care Act and Statutory law (Public Health and Welfare: 42 USCS 295p(21)). In this piece, we share a bit of context on Healthy People 2030's ongoing consideration and summarize input that leading health services researchers and health communication scholars' have offered in response to the Healthy People 2030 proposal for a new definition of health literacy.