Abstract
Health Literacy, Diabetes Prevention, and Self-Management.
Highlights
In the last few decades, focus on how to achieve and support maintenance of optimal glycemic control has become a wellestablished research area
The World Health Organization defines health literacy as “the personal characteristics and social resources needed for individuals and communities to access, understand, appraise and use information and services to make decisions about health” [3]
Health literacy is known to be associated with health outcomes, including chronic disease and diabetes [4]
Summary
In the last few decades, focus on how to achieve and support maintenance of optimal glycemic control has become a wellestablished research area. Among people with type 2 diabetes, inadequate health literacy is independently associated with worse glycemic control, higher rates of retinopathy, and lower self-rated health [5, 6]. Needing to understand this association in more depth and to explore potential interventions to improve diabetes health outcomes and quality of life was the basis for dedicating a special edition of this journal to such issues.
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