@inbook{7d9b63718ac2429c845cb830103dfb5a,
title = "Health Literacy and Healthy Lifestyle Choices",
abstract = "Information intended to persuade people to make healthy lifestyle choices abounds from lay and professional, public and private sources within and beyond formal health systems. Positioning the relevant importance of the individual and the broader society in supporting personal health behaviours is central to public health policy and health literacy efforts aimed at improving health outcomes. This chapter examines the multidimensional concepts of health literacy and healthy lifestyle choices within two policy contexts, the United Kingdom and Canada, and from our respective fields of practice, pharmacy and nutrition. By drawing on the literature and examples from our research, we explore ideas about health literacy and the responsibility of individuals for using information to make and act upon an informed choice pertaining to their personal health behaviour.",
keywords = "health literacy, healthy lifestyle",
author = "Gillis, {Doris E.} and Gray, {Nicola J.}",
note = "Copyright: Copyright 2014 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.",
year = "2012",
month = jul,
day = "1",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781619429215",
series = " Public Health in the 21st Century",
publisher = "Nova Science Publishers Inc",
pages = "33--56",
editor = "Begoray, {Deborah L.} and Doris Gillis and Gillian Rowlands",
booktitle = "Health Literacy in Context",
address = "United States",
}
