Assessment of health literacy studies in iran: systematic review

Health literacy is seen as an important component of public health And for playing a key role in how people make decisions in the areas of health, community health promotion and high quality health care providers, policymakers have been concerned Given the importance of health literacy of individuals and the role they have in promoting their own health and others This study was conducted to evaluate the health literacy studies in different groups in the country .In this article keyword health literacy, in the title and abstract of published papers in scientific databases were searched and all the articles in Farsi on the list of health literacy. The abstracts were reviewed and in several steps unbiased duplicates were eliminated and finally 34 articles that had been done only on health literacy for a comprehensive review and data extraction were selected.
The results of this study show that the health literacy in different groups in our country is not desirable, therefore, should be considered coherent planning and efficient health policy