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Health information and communication needs under one health approach in Tanzania do health professionals influence health literacy

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dc.contributor.author Muhanga, Mikidadi I.
dc.date.accessioned 2023-08-16T06:56:17Z
dc.date.available 2023-08-16T06:56:17Z
dc.date.issued 2021
dc.identifier.citation Muhanga, M. I. (2021). Health Information and Communication Needs under One Health Approach in Tanzania: Do health professionals influence health literacy? East African Journal of Social and Applied Sciences, 3(1), 1-20 en_US
dc.identifier.issn 2714-2051
dc.identifier.issn 0856-9681
dc.identifier.uri http://repository.mocu.ac.tz/xmlui/handle/123456789/438
dc.description The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at: http//www.mocu.ac.tz en_US
dc.description.abstract Health professionals (HPs) have always been considered as a source of health information (HI). Nonetheless, potentiality of this source relies on HPs’ recognition and response to the community’s information and communication needs hence contributing significantly to diseases prevention, health care and promotion. Definitely, attaining optimal health calls for collaboration among animals, humans, and environmental HPs plus understanding the consequences of the interactions of animals, humans, and environment on health. This article discusses the influence of HPs on health literacy (HL) in the context of One Health Approach (OHA) in Morogoro, Tanzania. Through the use of questionnaire, data were captured from a 1440 sample which was obtained by the use of multistage sampling. The study also involved 16 and 80 individuals as a key informant interviews and focus group discussions respectively. Score Indexes measured the interaction of HPs with community members (CMs) and HL. A chi-squared test assessed the influence of HPs on HL. IBM-SPSS v.20 was employed in analysing quantitative data; whereas qualitative data were thematically analysed. Findings show that (32.9%) of the respondents had adequate HL, while (30.8%) and (36.3%) had moderate and inadequate HL. Findings further show a significant association between the level of HPs’ interactions with CMs and HL, (χ 2= 168.593, p= 0.000, phi =0.342). This concludes that HPs influence HL. Effective interventions should be formulated to enable HPs attend to CMs’ information and communication needs for further influence of HL under OHA en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher East African Journal of Social and Applied Sciences (EAJ-SAS) en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries Vol. 3;No. 1
dc.subject Patients-providers en_US
dc.subject Interaction en_US
dc.subject Health en_US
dc.subject Literacy en_US
dc.subject Information en_US
dc.subject Communication en_US
dc.title Health information and communication needs under one health approach in Tanzania do health professionals influence health literacy en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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