Health literacy strengths and challenges of people in New South Wales prisons: a cross-sectional survey using the Health Literacy Questionnaire (HLQ)

• Main Authors: Scott Gill (Author), Reem Zeki (Author), Sharlene Kaye (Author), Panayiota Zingirlis (Author), Vicki Archer (Author), Amy Lewandowski (Author), Grantley Creighton (Author), Caron Shaw (Author), Julia Bowman (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2023-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Health literacy is an important factor for enabling people to manage their health and live long fulfilling lives. People in prison are frequently from marginalised communities, often out of reach of conventional community based health organisations, and have poorer health outcome...