EVPOP workshop “Health literacy in a digital world"

We are excited to invite you to the next EVPOP workshop “Health literacy in a digital world”. 
 

The World Health Organization recognizes digital health literacy as a key component for better health outcomes, reducing inequalities in health-care access and enabling individuals to make better decisions for their health. However, the available data on the digital health literacy of the population show that there is a strong call for action as the increase of digital technologies challenges the health literacy skills of people. To achieve sustainable improvements, actions from individuals, health organizations and systems are required. In this webinar we want to focus on the challenges, barriers and facilitators accompanying the digital transformation. Also, we will hear about successful steps taken to address the issue of limited digital health literacy. 

The workshop is scheduled for February 20 2025 from 13:00 – 15:00 CET, online (zoom):
 

Registration: Please use the link to RSVP to the workshop: https://survey.goeg.at/index.php/982576

You are welcome to invite national stakeholders to the workshop and to forward this information for that purpose.

M-POHL and its projects at the 17th European Public Health Conference in Lisbon

M-POHL and its projects HLS24, OHL and EVPOP were presented at the European Public Health conference in three different sessions:

•    Scientific session ‘Promoting organizational health literacy in healthcare organizations and beyond in Europe` M-POHL OHL consortium members and the team of the OHL-ALL initiative presented their work and experiences with OHL. 
•    PechaKucha presentation `Health literacy in Europe: Building a comparative database for shaping public health policy` including:
•    The M-POHL Health Literacy Population Survey 2024-2026 (HLS24)
•    Measuring navigational health literacy – an extension of the HLS19-NAV scale
•    Measuring digital health literacy in Europe – developing a new tool to capture innovation
•    Measuring communicative health literacy – a revision of the HLS19-COM-P scale
•    PechaKucha presentation: `Health literacy policies – how can they be developed and imple-mented?`
 

M-POHL Self-Assessment Tools for Organizational Health Literacy

In the M-POHL Organizational Health Literacy project two tools were developed (1) the International Self-Assessment Tool for Organizational Health Literacy of Hospitals - short version (OHL-Hos-SF) and (2) the International Self-Assessment Tool for Organizational Health Literacy in Primary Health Care Services (OHL-PHC). More information can be found here.

EVPOP Workshops

The "EVPOP Workshops" are used to foster knowledge exchange, helping M-PHL member countries to enhance their understanding and application of health literacy policies in various settings.

Workshop on health literacy in a digital world

The third EVPOP workshop was held on February 20th 2025 and focused on digital health literacy. The available data on digital health literacy of the population show that there is a strong call for action as the increase of digital technologies challenges the health literacy skills of people. To achieve sustainable improvements, actions from individuals, health organizations and systems are required. In this webinar Diane Levin-Zamir, M-POHL research chair, introduced the topic in her presentation. Reflections on digital health literacy were provided by Ryan dos Santos, WHO Regional office for Europe & Robert Griebler, scientific coordinator of the M-POHL project, followed by a presentation of A European Strategy for Digital Health Literacy (IDEAHL) by Marta Pisano González (Regional Ministry of Health of the Principality of Asturias), Inés Rey Hidalgo (Foundation for the Promotion in Asturias of Applied Scientific Research and Technology) and Cristina Fernández García (Health Service of the Principality of Asturias). In addition, national experiences on addressing digital health literacy were shared by Anja Laschkolnig (Austrian Public Health Institute) and Ingrid Schmidt (National Board of Health and Welfare, Sweden).

 

Workshop on Health Literacy and Behavioural and Cultural Insights

The recording of the EVPOP workshop “Health Literacy and Behavioural and Cultural Insights: what is the relationship between these two approaches” is now available HERE. 

At the workshop, which was held on 23rd May 2024, a new WHO concept note on Behavioural and Cultural Insights (BCI) and health literacy was presented by Katrine Bach Habersaat, Regional Advisor for BCI, WHO Regional office for Europe. Reflections on BCI and health literacy with focus on M-POHL were provided by Diane Levin-Zamir, M-POHL research chair and Chair of the Technical Advisory Group for BCI Unit – WHO-Europe & Robert Griebler, scientific coordinator of the M-POHL project. 

In addition, national experiences on the issue of health literacy and BCI were shared by Miguel Telo de Arriaga, Head of the Division of Literacy, Health and Well-being, Directorate-General of Health, Portugal & Robert Murphy, Senior Economics Research Officer, Department of Health, Ireland. 

Integrating and strengthening health literacy at policy level – models and tools for implementation

The workshop was held on 10th October 2024 and focused on the implementation of Health Literacy policies in several countries. It was opened by a presentation of the recent evaluation of the EVPOP policy guides' checklist, done by Christina Dietscher (M-POHL policy co-chair). The presentation can be downloaded here. 

The following presentations focused on the experiences of different countries' implementation of Health Literacy efforts. Helen Ryan, the Health Lead of the Adult Literacy for Life Programme Office gave insight into Irelands efforts of "Making Health Literacy everyone’s business". Petr Struk, Head of the Board of the Czech Institute for Health Literacy presented "2014 - 2024: 10 years of health literacy as part of health policy in the Czech Republic" and gave insight into how Czechia implemented health literacy in their national health policy. 

 

Recording of the Workshop on Health Literacy and Behavioural and Cultural Insights

The recording of the EVPOP workshop “Health Literacy and Behavioural and Cultural Insights: what is the relationship between these two approaches” is now available HERE. 

At the workshop, which was held on 23rd May 2024, a new WHO concept note on Behavioural and Cultural Insights (BCI) and health literacy was presented by Katrine Bach Habersaat, Regional Advisor for BCI, WHO Regional office for Europe. Reflections on BCI and health literacy with focus on M-POHL were provided by Diane Levin-Zamir, M-POHL research chair and Chair of the Technical Advisory Group for BCI Unit – WHO-Europe & Robert Griebler, scientific coordinator of the M-POHL project. 

In addition, national experiences on the issue of health literacy and BCI were shared by Miguel Telo de Arriaga, Head of the Division of Literacy, Health and Well-being, Directorate-General of Health, Portugal & Robert Murphy, Senior Economics Research Officer, Department of Health, Ireland. 
 

Guide & videos on health literacy policies

Health literacy policies – how can they be developed and implemented

As health literacy is considered critical to the achievement of health, and limited health literacy is still a widespread phenomenon, the topic is steadily gaining more interest from policy- and decision-makers. To meet the growing demand of decision-makers, a policy guide “Health literacy policies – how can they be developed and implemented?” was initiated to support policy-/decision-makers and administrators in implementing effective policies and actions to improve health literacy of the population on a national level. It is a product of M-POHL, initiated and sponsored by the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health together with WHO/Europe and the Austrian National Public Health Institute.
Countries are invited to contribute to the knowledge transfer by sending a video sharing their national experiences on health literacy policy work and in implementing health interventions The guide and the videos can be found HERE.
 

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