Health literacy: Challenges for patients and for health professionals
(2019) Bassett Medical Education workshop on Health Literacy — Location: Cooperstown, NY (3.October.2019)
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- Health literacy refers to the motivation and skills of individuals to access, understand, evaluate and use information to make decisions about their health. It is increasingly recognized as a determinant of the quality and outcomes of health care, and as a mediator of health inequalities. Numerous studies at the global level have shown that a large part of the population has a low or even insufficient health literacy. It is therefore important to take action to address the challenge of low health literacy. This can be done through three main strategies: a continued investment in general and specific health education; recognizing people with low health literacy during medical and health consultations and adapting the way of communication to make it more understandable, and the creation of health literate organisations. In all three these approaches, health professionals have an important role to play. During the presentation examples will be provided of promising actions to address the challenge of low health literacy.
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Van den Broucke, S. (2019). Health literacy: Challenges for patients and for health professionals. Bassett Medical Education workshop on Health Literacy, Cooperstown, NY. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/123912