Aims and scope
Health Literacy and Communication is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal that publishes original, interdisciplinary research exploring health literacy, health and communication, and the intersection of these two fields. The journal emphasises a global and accessible approach, including research in diverse international contexts with plain language summaries for consumers. It publishes qualitative and quantitative methods on empirical and theoretical health questions using the lens of multiple perspectives, experiences, and cultures. This journal provides a space for the international research community to advance scholarship on 1.) individual, community and organisational health literacy, and 2.) health communication with patients and consumers within health systems and in community settings.

Especially welcomed are interdisciplinary, international, and transnational articles that draw a connection between communication studies and health literacy as well as converging fields, including:

health literacy
health communication
health education
provider-patient/family communication
shared decision-making
health promotion
health policy
digital health
medical ethics
social marketing