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August 16, 2025BMC Public HealthOpen Access

Access to healthy ınformatıon: the ınteractıon of medıa lıteracy and health lıteracy

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HMHatice MutluGBGözde BozkurtGÖGökten Öngel

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Survey reveals media literacy significantly enhances health literacy in Turkey, suggesting educational strategies to combat misinformation.

Key Points

  • Media literacy levels significantly influence health literacy levels, indicating the need for improved education on media consumption.
  • The access sub-dimension improves health literacy by 1.90 times, underscoring the importance of effective information retrieval skills.
  • A survey of 485 participants employed the Korean Health Literacy Scale, showing strong relations between media literacy and informed health decisions.
  • These findings suggest enhancing media literacy skills could mitigate misinformation and foster better health outcomes.

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Mutlu et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68af2d7ccf1dd9ea359e595bhttps://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-025-24022-2
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