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Abstract：
A growing body of evidence demonstrates the importance of enhancing health literacy for improved health outcomes, self-reported health, lower health services use and disease prevention. Importantly, improving health literacy has great potential to reduce health inequities and inequalities. The World Health Organization (WHO) has identified health literacy as a global priority, viewing it as a right and a fundamental competency necessary to function within modern society. Building health literacy foundations should begin in early childhood, including focus within educational frameworks and school curricula. The WHO advocate for governments to embed it as an explicit goal. In response, it has received significant international policy and strategy focus, in addition to the development of country-level action plans. In Wales, UK, it was identified as a priority in 2010, but despite wider developments spanning health and social care, well-being, economy and education policy, growth in health literacy has stalled since. Optimizing health literacy would act as an indirect enabler to a range of Welsh policies and strategies. A promising avenue for strengthening the health literacy of current and future generations is through ongoing significant national education reforms and the introduction of the new Curriculum for Wales. One of four overarching purposes of this curriculum is healthy, confident individuals, and health and well-being constitutes one of six statutory curriculum areas. Tracking the impact of this on children and young people\'s health literacy offers opportunities for Wales to model and gain traction as a national-scale health literacy policy testbed. This requires re-energizing health literacy as a national priority.
摘要：
越来越多的证据表明，提高健康素养对改善健康结果的重要性，自我报告的健康状况，较低的卫生服务使用和疾病预防。重要的是,提高健康素养具有减少健康不平等和不平等的巨大潜力。世界卫生组织（WHO）已将健康素养确定为全球优先事项，将其视为在现代社会中运作所必需的权利和基本能力。建立健康素养基础应该从儿童早期开始，包括关注教育框架和学校课程。世卫组织主张各国政府将其作为明确的目标。作为回应,它得到了重要的国际政策和战略重点，此外，还制定了国家一级的行动计划。在威尔士,英国,它在2010年被确定为优先事项，但尽管在健康和社会护理方面取得了更广泛的发展，幸福,经济和教育政策，此后，健康素养的增长停滞不前。优化健康素养将成为威尔士一系列政策和战略的间接推动者。通过正在进行的重大国家教育改革和引入威尔士新课程，是加强当代和后代健康素养的一个有希望的途径。本课程的四个主要目的之一是健康，自信的个体,健康和福祉是六个法定课程领域之一。追踪这对儿童和年轻人的健康素养的影响，为威尔士提供了作为国家规模的健康素养政策测试平台进行建模和获得牵引力的机会。这需要重新激发健康素养作为国家优先事项。
