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Health literacy among future educators after the fading Covid-19 pandemic
Health literacy among future educators after the fading Covid-19 pandemic

Author(s): Tereza Sofková
Subject(s): Education, Higher Education , Health and medicine and law
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: health literacy; education; students of the teaching program;
Summary/Abstract: 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 in education. Teachers’ level of health literacy affects its development among their students. The purpose of the present paper is to analyse level of health literacy in students of the study programme Teaching at the Faculty of Education, Palacký University Olomouc.