Speaker: Professor Don Nutbeam, Professor of Public Health, University of Sydney, Australia
Overview
Health literacy describes the skills that enable individuals to obtain, understand and use information to make decisions and take actions that have an impact on health. We also understand that the context in which people are required to use these skills is important.
Several countries now have well established national strategies and plans to improve health literacy through programs to improve the skills of patients and the public, and service changes to reduce the literacy demands on patients and the public.
This webinar will explore the evolution in our understanding of health literacy and identify practical strategies to improve health literacy in clinical and community populations.