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Ideas to Action Agenda 5:30 Arrive, eat and meet 6:00 Welcome and how the evening will run Mike Oliver and Judy Kurth 6:10 Health Literacy : stories from the frontline Jo Protheroe and Jonathan Berry 6:55
5:30 – Arrive, eat and meet
6:00 – Welcome and how the evening will run – Mike Oliver and Judy Kurth
6:10 – Health Literacy : stories from the frontline – Jo Protheroe and Jonathan Berry
6:55 – Action planning by priority theme – table activity
7:40 – Feedback from each table
7:50 – Personal action pledges – table activity
8:00 – Feedback from each table
8:10 – Close, thank you and next steps
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Ideas to Action Stoke-on-Trent March 2015
To raise practitioners’ awareness about Health Literacy To improve people’s Health Literacy To raise policy makers’ awareness of Health Literacy To enable people with low Health Literacy to shape health
information
To inform policy UK wide To raise general awareness about what Health Literacy
means
To highlight the contribution that learning can make to health
improvement
Below Level 1 – can’t find relevant information
Below Entry 3 – can’t explain straightforward
Below Entry 2 – can’t follow a simple letter
Skilled for Health: Making the Case (2006) Berry, J et al
Skilled for Health: Making the Case (2006) Berry, J et al
From Dr Suzanne McCarthy and Dr Laura Sahm, University of Cork
1 in 5 Irish people are not confident that they understand all the information which their health professional gives to them 43% would only sometimes ask for information to be explained more clearly 1 in 10 people admitted to taking the wrong dose of medication because they didn’t understand the instructions given.
Words of multiple meaning problematic Complex words hard to understand Symptoms – very confusing Medical words – not well understood Some diagrams caused confusion/provoked
Patient Activation
Public Health/Health Inequalities
Treatment and Adherence
PPI
1.
Think of examples of when you may have encountered or have had to take into account low Health Literacy issues within your role.
2.
What impact does low Health Literacy have on your area of responsibility?
3.
What do you need to do to make sure that people and communities with low Health Literacy are considered within your area of responsibility?
4.
What is your role in that?
5.
Who else could help?
SMOG – Simple Measure of Gobbledygook TOFHLA – Test of Functional Health Literacy in
REALM – Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in
NVS - Newest Vital Signs SfH – National Health Literacy Course
(Language, Literacy and Numeracy)
Health Literacy: the agenda we cannot afford to ignore, CHLF
(2014)
Skills for Life Survey, BIS (2011) The Marmot Review – Strategic Review of Health Inequalities in
England post 2010 (2010)
The cost of limited health literacy: a systematic review :
K.Eichler, S.Weisser, U.Brugger (2009)
The evolving concept of health literacy : Don Nutbeam (2008) Useful websites: www.healthliteracy.org.uk and
www.chlfoundation.org.uk
stoke.gov.uk
stoke.gov.uk