Lectures and seminars Seminar series on Health Literacy: "The European Health Literacy Survey & Health Literate Organisations"

Title

"The European Health Literacy Survey & Health Literate Organisations"

In the first part of the seminar, we will get information about the newly conducted European Health Literacy Survey (HLS 19), in which about 44 000 respondents from 17 countries in the European Region took part in. Information will be given about the Health Literacy instruments that were used , which Health Literacy aspects that were in focus, and how researchers and policy makers from the 17 countries collaborated with the survey. Furthermore, selected results will be presented, which, among other things show that there is a social gradient in Health Literacy. In the second part of the seminar, we will get information about the concept and definitions of a Health Literate Organisation and on instruments for measuring how Health Literate (friendly or responsive) an organisation is, with a focus on healthcare organisations. Finally, information will be given about what versions of the HLS-EU-Q instrument and what Organisational Health Literacy instrument, that are available in Sweden.

Speakers

• Jürgen M. Pelikan, PhD, Professor em. at Institute of Sociology, Vienna University; head WHO-CC for Health Promotion in Hospitals and Health Care, Austrian Public Health Institute; co-chair Action Network on Measuring Population and Organizational Health Literacy of WHO Europe (M-POHL); international PI of HLS19.
• Josefin Wångdahl, affiliated to the Divsion of Aging Research Center/NVS/KI. Josefin is also acting seminar leader.