Health Literacy and Health Behavior

Health literacy is regarded as an important factor influencing health-relevant behavior, which is central to maintaining and promoting health and can support the therapy of various diseases. Health-relevant behavior covers lifestyle factors such as physical activity, diet, smoking, alcohol consumption, but also behavior such as coping with stress, sleep patterns, media use and the use of preventive measures. The interest group aims the global exchange of research and practice on different aspects of health literacy and health behavior throughout the life course. It is not only general health literacy that is of interest, but also specific health literacy such as food literacy or physical literacy. The interest group looks at behavioral change through the promotion of health literacy on the individual level but also on the contextual level, e.g. of organizations, structures and policies.