Gaining physical health in today's world requires learning and increasing the level of public knowledge which depends on the media. Health literacy is a set of cognitive and social skills which determines people's motivation and ability to obtain and access information, understanding and using them to promote and maintain people's health. The importance of the interaction between media literacy and physical health literacy is so delicate that it will lead to the health or unhealthiness of a person. The present study was conducted in the statistical population of citizens over 18 years old in the city of Bandar Abbas with sample size of 384 people, using questionnaire and survey technique. Survey was analyzed through SPSS and Smart PLS and the foundation of communication, the dimensions of media literacy and physical health literacy were studied. Findings indicate that between media literacy (0. 36) and its dimensions namely information evaluation (0. 42), information composition (0. 32), purposeful use (0. 37), information exchange (0. 28) and using media (0. 26) has a positive, direct and significant relationship with citizen health literacy. Therefore, all the research hypotheses are rejected. The results of the structural equation model (Smart PLS) also showed that the overall effect of independent media literacy on citizens' health literacy is 0. 50.

Introduction: The development of media literacy and expansion of social health and moral literacy can pave the way for desirable performance. This study investigated the effect of media literacy on social health using the mediating role of moral literacy among medical staff in Aligudarz. Methods: The present applied research was a descriptive-analytical study. Tools to gather data consisted of three Taman’, s Media Literacy scales, Keyes’,Social Health, and Moral Literacy Questionnaires. The sample size was 217 people from Aligoudarz Health Personnel selected via a simple random sampling method. The data were analyzed by Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), Structural Equation modeling, and Pearson Correlation in the SPSS-24 and Smart-PLS software. Results: The study of the mediating role of moral literacy based on the bootstrapping approach showed an insignificant direct effect of media literacy on social health (t = 0/37, p> 0/05). Media literacy indirectly affects social health through moral literacy, equal to 0/38 (t = 6/18 p <0/05). Moral literacy has a complete mediating role in the relationship between media literacy and social health. According to the Sobel test, moral literacy has a significant mediating role in media literacy and social health. Conclusion: Media literacy potential affects social health. Therefore, using moral literacy makes it possible to promote social health, especially among medical staff.

Objective(s): Due to the capabilities of alternative metrics and their speed in evaluating scientific outputs, and the importance of social media in establishment of scholarly communication and findings’ dissemination, the aim of this study was to investigate the use of social media by health literacy researchers, and to identify top articles based on altmetric score and the association between altmetrics and citation indicators.Methods: The current descriptive research was conducted through scientometrics method and using altmetrics data. The study population consisted of health literacy articles that were published in year 2015, had digital object identifier (DOI), and were indexed in Web of Science. The initial number of retrieved articles was 649 papers. Since the digital object identifiers was required in altometric studies and the use of data from the Altmetric Institute, the documents that did not have the identifier were removed and thus the research population was reduced to 615 record. To collect alternative indicators, each individual article was matched by altmetric.com manually. Spearman correlation was used for analyzing the data.Results: Mendeley and Twitter were the most used social media by health literacy scholars for sharing scientific outputs, ranked first and second by number of 492 and 487 articles respectively. The results revealed statistically significant relationship between most alternative metrics and the number of citations in Web of Science. From the reviewed articles, Iranian researchers wrote 9 articles on health literacy. Of these, 6 had a digital object identifiers. After searching on the altmetric site, it became clear that these six articles have been used in Mendeley's social media and Twitter compared to more than other social media and had 134 readers in Mendeley and 64 tweets in Twitter respectively.Conclusion: Social media can have a positive impact on the citation rate of articles. Therefore, health literacy researchers can make use of social media in order to better inform peers on the Internet and increase the citation to their scientific productions. For this purpose, they could share their work in various social media.

Dear Editor, Infodemic refers to mass volume of information associated with a specific topic and its growth can occur explosively in a short period of time. This phenomenon is amplified through social networks and spreads such as a virus. However, on the other hand media literacy is a very special skill that is considered as one of the most important skills that one needs. Media literacy gives the ability to analyze and recognize published information. This paper aimed to introduce the role of media literacy in managing the health information epidemic.