04.11.2011 - 10:24
Health literacy: the missing link in Public Health?
The easy wins in public health have been achieved, while the modern-day public health professional is left to try and solve the harder issues, including the ever-increasing prevalence of risk factors for chronic disease such as obesity, physical activity, smoking and social isolation. This is at a time when there are increasing social inequities in health, accompanied by huge advances in describing the size of the problem without the required concentrated effort to generate effective interventions and solutions. What is currently being done in public health just isn't working, and fresh approaches are required. This masterclass will focus on what is health literacy and show its potential to inform public health and drive system level improvements.
Health literacy has been an alluring academic concept and opportunity for the last 20 years and more. Unfortunately it has not yet met its promise of providing insights into the causes of, and solutions for, social inequities in health. Why is this?
This workshop will be fast moving and intensive, and will include small group activities, nominal groups approaches and will push the health literacy concept to the limits.
For more information, please see the German page.
For more information, please see the German page.
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