The following activities are underway:
Assessment of organizational health literacy in hospitals
- The International Self-Assessment Tool for Organizational Health Literacy (Responsiveness) of Hospitals (OHL-Hos), which was developed by the International Working Group on Health Promoting Hospitals and Health Literate Healthcare Organizations (HPH & HLO) will be used in the M-POHL OHL project. In a first step the tool will be translated, cultural adapted, and piloted in the participating M-POHL countries. Building on the piloting results the tool might be slightly modified and is then ready for a larger roll out.
- In addition, a shortened assessment tool for hospitals will be developed based on the OHL-Hos tool as first piloting results showed that for some organizations a less extensive tool would be more acceptable and feasible.
Assessment of organizational health literacy in primary healthcare organizations and pharmacies
- A M-POHL OHL working group has developed the International Self-Assessment Tool for Organizational Health Literacy in Primary Health Care Services (OHL-PHC) from 2022-2023. The OHL-PHC builds on the OHL-Hos and the OHL Self-AsseT (De Gani et al. 2020).
- Currently in 2024, first experiences on translating, cultural adapting and piloting of the tool are gained and shared with the OHL consortium.
Development, translation, cultural adaption, and piloting of the OHL assessment tools
A study design with five phases was developed by the International Coordination Center (ICC) of M-POHL:
- Phase 1: Initiation of the international project
- Phase 2: Development organizational health literacy assessment tools
- Phase 3: Translation and cultural adaption of the organizational health literacy assessment tools
- Phase 4: Piloting of the organizational health literacy assessment tools in one or more healthcare organizations in each country
- Phase 5: International collecting and integrating of national experiences and results in an international report.
In addition, several documents and supporting tools were provided to facilitate the process of translation, cultural adaption, and piloting of the tools and the documentation of experiences and results gained in this process.
International exchange on experiences with organizational health literacy assessments
Participating countries can attend M-POHL OHL project consortium meetings for an international exchange on their national experiences on their work on assessing organizational health literacy. Currently first experiences on translation, cultural adaption, and piloting are shared. In future, experiences on facilitating the uptake of organizational health literacy assessment tools and on implementing organizational health literacy by roll out procedures in the countries will be shared.