Thomas Link

Datos Biográficos

ID7790844
NOMBREThomas Link
NOMBRESThomas
APELLIDOLink
FIRMALINK T
AFILIACIONESGesundheit Österreich
ORCID0000-0001-6653-5911
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS6
TOTAL DE CITAS0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR6
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2022
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H0

  • Health equity through health literacy

    Open AccessRegina García-Velázquez, Tyler Prinkey et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2026

    This study introduced the Finnish version of HLS19-Q12 and approached valid and reliable HL monitoring as a key element within the field of social determinants of health. This study provided novel insights on HL while replicating findings reported in the literature. We provide specific recommendations for valid monitoring of HL and ponder over culturally and linguistically responsive policy making, in accordance with the Health in All Polices app…

  • Measuring digital health literacy and its associations with determinants and health outcomes in 13 countries

    Open AccessDiane Levin‐Zamir, Diane Levin-Zamir et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    Introduction: Digital health information sources are playing an increasingly prominent role in health promotion, public health and in healthcare systems. Consequently, digital health literacy skills are likewise becoming increasingly important. Methods: -DIGI, applied in the European Health Literacy Survey (2019-2021) of the WHO M-POHL network, analyzing data from 28,057 respondents from 13 countries. The instrument is a modified and extended ver…

  • Measuring Comprehensive, General Health Literacy in the General Adult Population

    Open AccessJürgen M Pelikan, Thomas Link et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2022

    The HLS 19 -Q12, based on a comprehensive understanding of HL, shows acceptable psychometric and validity characteristics for different languages, country contexts, and methods of data collection, and is suitable for measuring HL in general, national, adult populations. There are also indications for further improvement of the instrument

  • HLS19-NAV—Validation of a New Instrument Measuring Navigational Health Literacy in Eight European Countries

    Open AccessLennert Griese, Hanne Søberg Finbråten et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2022

    To manoeuvre a complex and fragmented health care system, people need sufficient navigational health literacy (NAV-HL). The objective of this study was to validate the HLS 19 -NAV measurement scale applied in the European Health Literacy Population Survey 2019-2021 (HLS 19 ). From December 2019 to January 2021, data on NAV-HL was collected in eight European countries. The HLS 19 -NAV was translated into seven languages and successfully applied in…

  • The HLS19-COM-P, a New Instrument for Measuring Communicative Health Literacy in Interaction with Physicians

    Open AccessHanne Søberg Finbråten, Peter Nowak et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2022

    The HLS 19 -COM-P instrument was well accepted in nine countries, in different data collection modes, and could be used to measure COM-HL

  • The Determinants of Vaccine Literacy in the Italian Population

    Open AccessChiara Cadeddu, Luca Regazzi et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2022

    Vaccines are among the most important public health achievements of the last century; however, vaccine awareness and uptake still face significant challenges and the COVID-19 pandemic has only exacerbated this phenomenon. Vaccine Literacy (VL) is the ability to find, understand and judge immunisation-related information to make appropriate immunisation decisions. A cross-sectional study on a sample of 3500 participants, representative of the Ital…