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Health Literacy Research and Practice

WebHealth Literacy Research and Practice (HLRP) is the official journal of the Institute for Healthcare Advancement and is a forum for the dissemination of high-quality behavioural …

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The Health Literacy Place – Helping people in understanding …

WebHealth literacy is about people having sufficient knowledge, understanding, confidence and skills to cope with the complex demands of modern health care. Meeting people’s health …

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Techniques – The Health Literacy Place

WebThis section is dedicated to the five techniques recommended for good health literacy practice. Teach Back. Chunk and Check. Use Simple Language. Use Pictures. Routinely …

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Toolkit – The Health Literacy Place

WebToolkit There are a wide range of tools which can support your health literacy practice and this section of the website contains an overview of some of the main techniques and …

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Resources – The Health Literacy Place

WebHealth Literacy Research and Practice (HLRP) is the official journal of the Institute for Healthcare Advancement and is a forum for the dissemination of high-quality behavioural …

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Why Health Literacy – The Health Literacy Place

WebImpact There are many definitions of health literacy available, the national health literacy action plan defines health literacy as: “Health literacy is about people having enough …

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Teach Back – The Health Literacy Place

WebThe teach back method is a useful way to confirm that the information you provide is being understood by getting people to ‘teach back’ what has been discussed and what …

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About – The Health Literacy Place

WebIt is an interdisciplinary and international open-access publication dedicated to promoting excellence in research and practice to advance the field of health literacy, promote …

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Report – The Health Literacy Place

WebHealth literacy addresses a range of social dimensions of health, including knowledge, navigation and communication, as well as individual and organizational skills for …

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Communication strategies – The Health Literacy Place

WebSlow down and spend time explaining and listening wherever possible. Use plain, non medical language. Limit the amount of information provided at each meeting and use …

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Use simple language – The Health Literacy Place

WebThe Center for Disease Control’s National Centre for Health Marketing have developed a thesaurus which gives plain language suggestions for a range of healthcare and medical …

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Encouraging patient questions – The Health Literacy Place

WebEncouraging patient questions. While it should primarily be the responsibility of professionals to ensure that they are providing information that is accurate, relevant and …

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Supporting the people of Scotland to be “sufficiently on their guard”

WebScotland’s earliest champion of health literacy was probably a physician working in Roxburghshire, William Buchan, who wrote: “Medical authors have generally written in a …

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Health Care Support Worker Resource – Health literacy and finding

WebThis resource has been created by NHS Education for Scotland specifically for staff working in a Health Care Support Worker role, for example, administration, estates, portering etc. …

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Short e-learning module for pharmacists on health literacy and

WebTo support community pharmacists to use health literacy tools and techniques an eLearning module on health literacy was developed and tested by community pharmacists It …

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Chunk and check – The Health Literacy Place

WebChunk and check can be used alongside tools such as teach back to assist in promoting understanding. When we speak to patients and clients there is often a lot of information …

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Medicine management – The Health Literacy Place

WebPeople may also stop taking medication because they do not understand the side effects or because they may feel better they discontinue the course before it is complete. …

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Access to Healthcare – The Health Literacy Place

WebJoe Fitzpatrick, MSP, Minister for Public Health, Sport and Wellbeing said: “I am proud to be launching the Access to Healthcare information card which will ensure some of the most …

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History of health literacy in Scotland

WebHistory of health literacy in Scotland. Article | 23 September 2021. A blog article by Christine Hoy from the Health and Social Care Alliance on the history of health literacy in …

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