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Health literacy and health information producers
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In order for PiF to plan future services or resources around
health literacy, we need to know more about how we can help.
Please tick any of the below that might be useful for you.
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Do you have anything else to add?
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100
150
200
250
201, (84.1%)
A practical guide to health literacy
139, (58.16%)
Workshops or seminars
about health literacy
191, (79.92%)
Good practice examples
68, (28.45%)
Online expert discussion group
• A practical guide to
health literacy, good
practice examples
and workshops were
identified as useful
resources.
• E-learning
opportunities,
evaluation tools and
measures and reading
lists were other
suggestions made.
This was a free field response. Respondents were
generally supportive of the survey, because it
highlights health literacy as an important issue.
Keywords included ‘resources’ ‘support’ and ‘issue’.
These are some direct quotes from respondents
which typify the responses:
‘Health literacy is two sided: the skills, abilities
and understanding of the individual, but also
the difficulties that organisations, especially the
health and social care system place in people’s
way. We need to be looking at ways to eliminate
those barriers and make it easier for people to
navigate their way through the system.’
‘Lack of health literacy, combined with decreasing
knowledge and skills around healthy food and
cooking, underpin the growth in obesity in many
cases. This stuff starts at school.’
‘I think that this is a very important issue that
you are addressing, which can go a long way
to addressing issues around equal access to
healthcare.’
‘It’s great that PIF is conducting this survey.
Medicine is guided by evidence. The way we
produce health information should be guided by
evidence too.’
‘Keep battling away! It is quite alarming how
apparently well educated people want to give up
responsibility for their treatment choices when
they are unwell.’
