Digital health literacy (or eHealth literacy)

Digital health literacy is the ability to search for, access, understand, appraise, validate, and apply online health information, and to formulate and express questions, opinion, thoughts, or feelings when using digital devices.” This concept relates strongly to the frequency with which people use differ-ent health resources from digital sources and resources such as online video consultations, digital per-sonal health records, social media, health related apps, etc.

Definition Source

HLS19 Consortium defintion based on the concept and definition of general HL as proposed by the HLS-EU Consortium (Sorensen, 2013), but aligned with existing research on the scope and diversity of digital health resources across societies and cultures (Levin-Zamir & Bertschi, 2019).