Applied Health Literacy in Relation to Somatic Characteristics among Future Educators

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.21125/iceri.2022.1075" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.21125/iceri.2022.1075</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.21125/iceri.2022.1075" target="_blank" >10.21125/iceri.2022.1075</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Applied Health Literacy in Relation to Somatic Characteristics among Future Educators

Original language description

Health literacy is one of the key factors that affect health and the onset and development of many diseases, particularly after the fading Covid-19 pandemic. The objective of international as well as national strategic documents of the World Health Organization (WHO) is to increase the level of health literacy among the population. One of the core intervention areas is education. Teachers’ level of health literacy affects its development among their students. The Body Mass Index (BMI) is most frequently used to assess the optimum body mass in relation to health risks. The research carried out in 2022 related to the sample of 130 female students of the Faculty of Education, Palacký University Olomouc, aged 25.5 ±8.5 years, BMI 22.7 ±5.2 kg/m2. The aim of the study was to evaluate the BMI based on the health literacy level. The research instrument recommended by the World Health Organization and provided by the National Institute of Public Health in Prague was used. The research was carried out by using the health literacy questionnaire tailored to healthcare, disease prevention, health promotion and the general level of health literacy. A total of 10.8% of students showed an excellent level, 26.2% a sufficient level and 35.4% a problematic level of general health literacy. Students achieved the highest level of the health literacy in the area of healthcare. The differences between the levels of health literacy for the BMI categories were statistically insignificant for the group included in the study.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

ICERI2022 Proceedings

ISBN

978-84-09-45476-1

ISSN

2340-1095

e-ISSN

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Number of pages

4

Pages from-to

4457-4460

Publisher name

International Association of Technology, Education and Development (IATED)

Place of publication

Madrid

Event location

Seville

Event date

Nov 7, 2022

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

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