SLIDE 1
Health Literacy and Preventive Care in General Practice
Professor Mark Harris Executive Director, Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity, UNSW Sydney
- 87% of population see a GP at
least once a year. Less than 1% of the population do not “have” a GP.
- Two thirds of GPs in South and
Western Sydney consult in a language other than English.
- GPs often know the context of
- ther conditions, treatments,
family and see people across the lifecycle.
- Change in complex health behaviours
& genetic and physiological risks
- Multiple sources of information of
variable quality and multiplicity of pathways to interventions
- Conflation of motivation and health
literacy.