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. 2022 Feb 7:27:100500.
doi: 10.1016/j.invent.2022.100500. eCollection 2022 Mar.

Digital health literacy as a super determinant of health: More than simply the sum of its parts

Robin van Kessel  1   2   3 , Brian Li Han Wong  3   4   5 , Timo Clemens  1 , Helmut Brand  1   6
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Digital health literacy as a super determinant of health: More than simply the sum of its parts

Robin van Kessel et al. Internet Interv. .

Abstract

•Civic literacy refers to the ability to engage meaningfully with one's community.•Digital, health, and civic literacy are key predictors for digital health literacy.•The extent to which these three affect digital health literacy remains unclear.•Building digital health literacy is vital to limit inequalities from expanding.

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The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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