Health Literacy and Communication Open (HLCO)

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

Health Literacy and Communication Open (HLCO) is :-

• International, Peer-Reviewed, Open Access, Refereed, health literacy, health communication, health education, shared decision-making, health promotion, health policy, medical ethics, social marketing , Online , Continuously Journal

• UGC Approved, ISSN Approved: P-ISSN E-ISSN: 2835-5245, Established: 2023,
• Provides Crossref DOI

• Not indexed in Scopus, WoS, DOAJ, PubMed, UGC CARE