fa سواد سلامت و رفتارهای پیشگیری کننده ● International Health نامه به سردبیر Letter to Editor <span dir="RTL">سواد سلامت به</span> <span dir="RTL">عنوان میزان ظرفیت فرد برای کسب، تفسیر و درک اطلاعات پایه و خدمات سلامت که برای تصمیم گیری مناسب لازم است، تعریف شده است.</span> <span dir="RTL">برخی از محققان معتقدند سواد سلامت در مقایسه با متغیرها</span><span dir="RTL">ی</span><span dir="RTL">ی مانند سن، </span><span dir="RTL">جنسیت</span><span dir="RTL">، درآمد، وضعیت اشتغال، </span><span dir="RTL">سطح تحصیلات و نژاد؛ پیش بینی کننده قوی تری در رابطه با سلامت است . سواد سلامت می تواند عامل تاثیرگذاری در افزایش رفتارهای بهداشتی مانند اتخاذ رفتارهای پیشگیرانه باشد .</span> <span dir="RTL">مطالعات انجام شده درباره ارتباط بین سواد سلامت و اتخاذ رفتارهای پیشگیرانه، نتایج ضد و نقیضی را گزارش می کنند.</span> Health literacy (HL) is defined as the capacity of a person to acquire, interpret, and understand basic information and health services that is necessary for proper decision making. Some researchers believe that HL is a stronger predictor of health as compared to variables such as age, sex, income, employment status, education level, and race [1]. HL can be an effective factor in increasing health behaviors such as adoption of preventive behaviors [2]. Studies on the relationship between HL and the adoption of preventive behaviors report controversial results. While the results of a study indicate that there is no significant relationship between HL and mammography [3], other studies in this regard have concluded that a low level of HL are related to the adoption of less preventive behaviors such as screening tests [4], performing less Pap smear and breast self-examination [2], less involvement in mammography, doing less physical activity and smoking [5], and performing less screening of prostate and colorectal cancers [3]. سواد سلامت, رفتار های پیشگیری کننده The findings of the above studies indicate the potential effect of HL on adoption 93 94 http://jrh.gmu.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-1395-4&slc_lang=fa&sid=1 Rahman Panahi رحمن پناهی peimanpanahi63@yahoo.com 100319475328460014706 100319475328460014706 No Department of Health Education & Promotion, School of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Ali Ramezankhani علی رمضانخانی aramezankhani@sbmu.ac.ir 100319475328460014707 100319475328460014707 No Department of Health Services, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences Tehran Mahmoud Tavousi محمود طاووسی tavousi@acecr.ac.ir 100319475328460014708 100319475328460014708 Yes Health Metrics Research Center, Iranian Institute for Health Sciences Research, ACECR, Tehran,