Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology
Vol. 16 No. 1 (2022): Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology

COVID-19 Outbreak and Health literacy of Health Institutions: The Role of Strategic Theory

Hashim Fawzi Alabadi (Unknown)
Ehsan Amori Almomen (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
30 Nov 2021

Abstract

The local outbreak of COVID-19 and its development into a global pandemic in a short time have made healthliteracy more critical than ever in facing these global health threats. The main objective of the research is toknow the reflection of the strategic theory in health literacy and the relationship and impact statement, and thenit is possible to know the determinants of the health institution’s success in managing health literacy efforts asthe Department of Health of Najaf was the organization in question. The researcher surveyed the opinions ofa number of its employees, as the research community was (248) employees, and the research sample reached(155) responses on which the analysis can be performed. A set of specialized descriptive and inferential testsand methods were conducted on the data obtained by using (SPSS v.26) program. The results show that thehealth institution’s interest in strategic theory will contribute to achieving health literacy by demonstrating therelationship and impact between the two research variables. The research extracts a set of recommendations,the most important of which is to increase the interest of the departments in the Najaf Health Department in theconcept of strategic theory and make health literacy programs a priority that must be implemented even in lightof the scarcity of financial resources.

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