[Health Literacy of People with and without Disabilities and Chronic Diseases in Germany: Results of the Study "German Health Update" 2014/2015-EHIS].

Background: People with disabilities and chronic diseases represent a population group in vulnerable circumstances, and often have difficulty finding, understanding, assessing, and applying health information. The aim of this study was to examine the health literacy of people doubly burdened with both disabilities and chronic diseases in comparison to two other groups, namely people with either disabilities or chronic diseases and people without impairment.

Material And Methods: Our data is based on the representative survey "German Health Update" 2014/2015-EHIS.

[Gradients in Mental Health and Health Consciousness by the Degree of Disabilities - Results from representative GEDA-Survey in Germany].

Purpose: People with disabilities belong to a vulnerable population group, especially with regard to their economic and health situation. In the social-epidemiological research, hardly any studies on mental health and health awareness among people with disabilities are available using representative data, in particular not differentiated according to their degree of disability (DoD). Therefore, the aim of this study is to investigate 1) differences in mental health and health awareness between people with disabilities compared to people without disabilities.

Organizational Health Literacy in Facilities for People with Disabilities: First Results of an Explorative Qualitative and Quantitative Study.

To date, studies on individual and organizational health literacy (OHL) in facilities for people with disabilities are scarce. Thus, the aims of this study are (1) to adapt an existing instrument for measuring organizational health literacy (OHL), namely, the "Health literate health care organization scale" (HLHO-10), to the context of facilities for people with disabilities, (2) to quantitatively examine characteristics of OHL, and (3) to qualitatively assess the definition and role of OHL by interviewing managers and skilled staff. An online study in Germany with = 130 managers and skilled staff in facilities for people with disabilities was conducted, using the adapted HLHO-10 questionnaire.