Youth Health Literacy

Background For a healthier EU, promoting good health is an integral part of Europe 2020, the EU's 10-year economic-growth strategy. That is, health policy is important to Europe 2020's objectives for smart and inclusive growth because keeping people informed, healthy, and active has a positive impact on the future of the EU. There is growing evidence that health and literacy are closely linked, and thus, influence other parameters such as poverty, inequality, discrimination, power relations, and income levels. Health Literacy is thus a strategy to contribute to the improvement of community’s health, participation, and well-being where health is the basic human right that guarantees people autonomy and responsibility for their own health, and well-being. Despite its immense benefits, health literacy remains a challenge for European public health. Research findings show that more than a third of the EU population face difficulties in finding, understanding, evaluating, and using information to manage their health, especially on sexual and mental health. Though according to WHO, health education interventions have a formative character, since they manage to integrate cognitive and attitudinal processes that allow behaviour modification, and become a conscious, rational and voluntary action. while health literacy refers to the skills and knowledge of individuals necessary to access, understand, evaluate and use health information, enabling them to make health care decisions, disease prevention, and means for healthy living. We seek to create a