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Given the health consumer\u2019s desire to be more involved in health data generation and health care decision making processes the authors submit that it is important to be health policy literate, to understanding how health policies are developed, what themes are discussed among health policy researchers and policy makers, to understand how ones demands would be discussed within health policy discourses. The public increasingly obtains their knowledge through the internet by searching web browsers for keywords. Question is whether the \u201chealth consumer\u201d to come has knowledge of key terms defining key health policy discourses which would enable them to perform targeted searches for health policy literature relevant to their situation. The authors found that key health policy terms are virtually absent from printed and online news media which begs the question how the \u201chealth consumer\u201d might learn about key health policy terms needed for web based searches that would allow the \u201chealth consumer\u201d to access health policy discourses relevant to them.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/info3030391","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2012,9,1]],"date-time":"2012-09-01T14:33:52Z","timestamp":1346510032000},"page":"391-402","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["Information Flow and Health Policy Literacy: The Role of the Media"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"3","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1363-0346","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Gregor","family":"Wolbring","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta T2N4N1, Canada"}]},{"given":"Verlyn","family":"Leopatra","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta T2N4N1, Canada"}]},{"given":"Sophya","family":"Yumakulov","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta T2N4N1, Canada"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2012,8,31]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"737","DOI":"10.1111\/j.0141-9889.2004.00416.x","article-title":"Health consumer groups in the UK: A new social movement?","volume":"26","author":"Allsop","year":"2004","journal-title":"Sociol. 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