Let’s kick off Health Information Week 2023 by looking at Health Literacy.
Health
Literacy is about individuals being able to understand health information such
that they are empowered to make good health decisions and have positive health
outcomes. You need to be aware of the issues that impact on patient health
literacy and how you can accommodate them, in order to support your patients.
53.4% of
people in Stoke on Trent struggle to understand health information. That number
rises to 72.3% of people who struggle to understand health information when it
includes numbers [source: http://healthliteracy.geodata.uk/ 2023].
What can
you do to make sure you are communicating effectively with your patients?
Complete the short, online Health Literacy
programme on the e-Learning for Health Hub (E-LfH). UHNM staff can also access
the Health Literacy programme from the ESR. Learn more about health literacy
and some techniques you can use when discussing health issues with patients
such as teach-back and chunk & check.
Check the Health
Literacy tool to get the health literacy levels for the population that you
support - how many people might struggle to understand health information?
Learn more about the impacts of poor health literacy
from NIHR - health
information: are you getting your message across
Check more
from our blog this week as we highlight good sources of patient information.
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