Health Literacy in Five Immigrant Populations in Norway: Pakistan, Poland, Somalia, Turkey, and Vietnam. English summary. In Helsekompetansen i fem innvandrerpopulasjoner i Norge: Pakistan, Polen, Somalia, Tyrkia og Vietnam. Befolkningens helsekompetanse, del II

Abstract

The report Befolkningens helsekompetanse, part I was published in January 2021. The present part (Part II) describes health literacy in five immigrant populations in Norway: immigrants from Pakistan, Poland, Somalia, Turkey, or Vietnam. The findings indicate the need for initiating short-term and long-term interventions aimed at immigrants in Norway. The objective of the HLS19 survey project was to obtain new evidence in support of authorities’ policy-based interventions to strengthen population health literacy. It is known that segments of the Norwegian immigrant population have public health challenges and experience barriers when interacting with health services, making it essential to collect data on various health literacy aspects among immigrants. Thus, HLS19 in Norway was expanded to include five immigrant populations with a background from Pakistan (n = 200), Poland (n = 400), Somalia (n = 379), Turkey (n = 352), or Vietnam (n = 402). The data was collected using two different sets of questionnaires (from 1733 persons in total). We only applied one set of the questionnaires to collect data from the Pakistani sample.