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Overview

Don Nutbeam is affiliated with the University of Sydney in Australia. Their research primarily spans the fields of Health Professions and Medicine, with a significant focus on subfields such as General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Epidemiology, Sociology and Political Science, and Health.

Their work covers several main topics including Health Literacy and Information Accessibility, Mobile Health and mHealth Applications, Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology, Health Policy Implementation Science, Breastfeeding Practices and Influences, and Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, and Quality of Life.

Don Nutbeam has contributed to multiple recent papers, including:

  • Understanding and Responding to Health Literacy as a Social Determinant of Health (2020, Annual Review of Public Health)
  • Health Promotion Glossary 2021 (2021, Health Promotion International)
  • Health Literacy and Shared Decision-making: Exploring the Relationship to Enable Meaningful Patient Engagement in Healthcare (2020, Journal of General Internal Medicine)
  • Building health literacy system capacity: a framework for health literate systems (2021, Health Promotion International)
  • Health Promotion Glossary 2021 (2021, Health Promotion International)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Don Nutbeam include Danielle Marie Muscat, Kirsten McCaffery, Julie Ayre, Angela Todd, and Sharon Parker.

The scientist's work has been published in several key venues, such as:

  • Public Health Research & Practice
  • Health Promotion International
  • HLRP Health Literacy Research and Practice
  • Global Health Promotion
  • BMJ Open

Best Publications

  • Health literacy as a public health goal: a challenge for contemporary health education and communication strategies into the 21st century

    Don Nutbeam

  • The evolving concept of health literacy.

    Donald Nutbeam

  • Health Promotion Glossary

    Don Nutbeam

  • Health promotion glossary (1998)

    Don Nutbeam

  • Evaluating Health Promotion—Progress, Problems and solutions

    Don Nutbeam

  • Understanding and Responding to Health Literacy as a Social Determinant of Health.

    Don Nutbeam;Jane E. Lloyd

  • Theory in a Nutshell: A Practical Guide to Health Promotion Theories

    Don Nutbeam;E. Harris;W. Wise

  • WHO Health Promotion Glossary: new terms.

    Benjamin John Smith;Kwok Cho Tang;Don Nutbeam

  • Achieving health and educational goals through schools—a study of the importance of the school climate and the students' satisfaction with school

    O. Samdal;D. Nutbeam;B. Wold;L. Kannas

  • The importance of the social environment for physically active lifestyle--results from an international study.

    T Ståhl;A Rütten;D Nutbeam;A Bauman

  • Defining and measuring health literacy: what can we learn from literacy studies?

    Donald Nutbeam

  • Exploring patient involvement in healthcare decision making across different education and functional health literacy groups.

    Sian K. Smith;Ann Dixon;Lyndal Trevena;Donald Nutbeam

  • Improving health literacy in community populations: a review of progress.

    Don Nutbeam;Bronwyn McGill;Pav Premkumar

  • Opportunities to improve maternal health literacy through antenatal education: an exploratory study

    Susan Renkert;Don Nutbeam

  • Advancing health literacy: a global challenge for the 21st century

    Don Nutbeam;Ilona Kickbusch

  • Schools as social complex adaptive systems: a new way to understand the challenges of introducing the health promoting schools concept.

    Nastaran Keshavarz;Don Nutbeam;Louise Rowling;Freidoon Khavarpour

  • Addressing health literacy in patient decision aids

    Kirsten J. McCaffery;Margaret Holmes-Rovner;Sian K. Smith;David R. Rovner

  • A decision aid to support informed choices about bowel cancer screening among adults with low education: randomised controlled trial

    Sian K. Smith;Lyndal Trevena;Judy M. Simpson;Alexandra Barratt

  • Evaluation in a nutshell: a practical guide to the evaluation of health promotion programs

    A. Bauman;D. Nutbeam

  • Front-line management, staffing and nurse-doctor relationships as predictors of nurse and patient outcomes. a survey of Icelandic hospital nurses.

    Sigrún Gunnarsdóttir;Sean P. Clarke;Anne Marie Rafferty;Donald Nutbeam

  • Health Promotion Glossary 2021.

    Don Nutbeam;Danielle M Muscat

Frequent Co-Authors

Kirsten McCaffery
Kirsten McCaffery University of Sydney
Lyndal Trevena
Lyndal Trevena University of Sydney
Elizabeth Harris
Elizabeth Harris University of New South Wales
Laurence Moore
Laurence Moore University of Glasgow
Ilona Kickbusch
Ilona Kickbusch Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Lucy Yardley
Lucy Yardley University of Bristol
Leif Edvard Aarø
Leif Edvard Aarø Norwegian Institute of Public Health
Bente Wold
Bente Wold University of Bergen
Lasse Kannas
Lasse Kannas University of Jyväskylä
Lesley King
Lesley King University of Sydney

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