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This chapter studies health literacy champions and their leadership. Recognizing the important role of health literacy champions for re-designing and re-orienting health systems towards people-centredness as the World Health Organization pledged to do, this chapter aims to explore how health literacy champions are characterized and nurtured as change-agents for the development of health literate organizations, settings and societies.
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Sørensen, K. (2021). Health Literacy Champions. In: Saboga-Nunes, L.A., Bittlingmayer, U.H., Okan, O., Sahrai, D. (eds) New Approaches to Health Literacy. Gesundheit und Gesellschaft. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-30909-1_15
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