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Project

Gelo+

Health literacy in first line organisations

How can we make policy makers aware of the theme of health literacy? How do we convince them to structurally embed it in their operations?

Raise awareness, train and stimulate

Many frontline professionals are insufficiently aware of health literacy and its importance. With this project:

  • we want to convince policymakers to embed health literacy structurally in the culture of their organizations.
  • we train health and welfare workers in health literate relationships and language.

To initiate the transition to health literate organizations, we develop:

  • a train-the-trainers package to train health and welfare workers.
  • a stimulation package for policymakers with a helicopter view of the entire train-the-trainers package, to make them enthusiastic about finding enough participants for the trajectory.

Goal

We want to make primary care organizations (ELOs) aware of the importance of health literacy and convince them to structurally embed health literacy in the culture of the organization, by encouraging members to become trainers in the topic of health literacy.

Results

Stimuluspackage for policy makers:
  • Short 'helicopter view' module with integration of the most important elements from the experience module, basic module and in-depth module of the train-the-trainers package.
  • Evaluation module to improve the package and learn a methodology to realize the further rollout of the project.
Train-the-trainerspackage:
  • Experience module: collecting 'communication samples' from various (new, complex) contexts to confront participants with what it means if you cannot simply follow.
  • Basic module: elaboration based on the first 3 steps within the low health literacy approach (Pharos, 2015).
  • In-depth module: elaboration based on the 3 last steps within the approach to low health literacy (Pharos, 2015).
  • Evaluation module: to improve the package and learn a methodology for further rollout.

Researchers

Researcher

Karolien Baldewijns

Committed researcher who enjoys exploring new paths and has a passion for empowerment.

Partners