儿童青少年健康素养研究现状与进展

提升健康素养可以有效降低儿童青少年发生健康危险行为和不良健康结局的风险。近年来全球关于儿童青少年健康素养的研究呈逐年上升趋势,对已有研究进行综述,发现目前尚未检索到通用的儿童青少年健康素养定义和内涵,且各国多采用成人健康素养代替或做适当调整,未充分考虑儿童青少年的阶段性发展特征及独特健康需求;评价指标体系和工具多样化,也使得研究结果可比性不足,难以得到一致、可靠的研究结论。未来需继续探讨提出更为全面和实用的定义及内涵,并研制可推广至全国的标准化评价工具。

Research status and progress of health literacy for children and adolescents

Improving health literacy can effectively reduce the risk of health risk behaviors and adverse health outcomes in children and adolescents. Global research on health literacy of children and adolescents has been increasing in recent years. The paper reviews the existing research and proposes that there is no universal definition and connotation of health literacy for children and adolescents, most of the studies use or make some revisions on the definition of adult health literacy in child and adolescent health literacy, failing to consider developmental characteristics and unique health needs of children and adolescents. Moreover, the assessment index system and instruments are diversified, making the research findings from different studies difficult to compare, and to obtain consistent and reliable conclusions. Future endeavors are encoouraged to expand health literacy researches and to update more comprehensive and practical definition, and to develop a standardized assessment instrument that can be validated in Chinese culture.