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Perspectives on Health Literacy: from research to action

 

This initiative "Perspectives on Health Literacy: from research to action" intends to bring together different agents of the field of health to discuss and promote national and international perspectives in the field of health literacy and consequently promote the advancement of knowledge about research and practice on health literacy.
Health literacy is a critical determinant of public health and health promotion with a profound impact on citizens’ empowerment and wellbeing. 
According to the World Health Organization (WHO) efforts to raise health, and literacy will be crucial for the full achievement of the social, economic, and environmental ambitions of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Meeting the health literacy needs of vulnerable societies will accelerate progress in reducing all types of inequalities. 
The world is currently experiencing an unprecedented health crisis that highlighted the vital role health literacy plays in saving lives during a Pandemic emergency. 
One recurrent failure in the implementation of programs, plans, and action projects to improve health literacy evidences the missing link between research and practice, as well as in collaborative networking. The literature confirms that there is an urgent need for innovation, promoting inter-collaboration of institutions and agents (nationally and internationally), stimulating participatory practices from society, and informing public health policies that will positively impact societies, institutions, and individuals. 

 

Organizing committee:
Ana Barros, i3S
Filipe Santos Silva, i3S
Helena Santos, FEP|CEF.UP | CITCEM|FLUP 
Nuno Martins, ID+| ESD-IPCA
Rita Espanha, Cies-ISCTE

 

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Program

09 November 2022 | 14:00 | Online

Nicola Diviani, Senior Research Associate within the Person-Centered Health Care & Health Communication Group at Swiss Paraplegic Research and Lecturer at the University of Lucerne, Department of Health Sciences and Medicine.

Rethinking health and scientific literacy in the age of infodemic

Nicola Diviani holds a PhD in Communication Science from the Università della Svizzera italiana (Switzerland). After research stays at the Harvard School of Public Health / Dana Farber Cancer Institute and at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research, he is currently a Senior Research Associate within the Person-Centered Health Care & Health Communication Group at Swiss Paraplegic Research and Lecturer at the University of Lucerne, Department of Health Sciences and Medicine. He is the National Representative for Switzerland on the Advisory Committee of the International Association for Communication in Healthcare (EACH) and a member of the Center for Rehabilitation in Global Health Systems (CRGHS). Since 2016 he acts as a consultant for the WHO Make Listening Safe initiative. His main research focus is health communication, with an emphasis on health behavior, health literacy, (online) health information seeking, infodemic, and self-management.

 


11 October 2022 | 11:00 | Online

Tara Chen, Climate-Health Fellow with the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER), GoHelp Lab at the University of Waterloo, Canada.

Accelerating Climate Action in Public Health through Health Literacy

Tara identifies as a young public health professional working to strengthen health systems with a vision that “everything & everywhere is public health”. She holds a BHSc from Western University and a dual MPH (Europubhealth+) in Governance and Health Economics. Tara is currently a PhD Student in the Department of Geography (GoHelp Lab) at the University of Waterloo, Canada and a Climate-Health Fellow with the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER), working on advocating for climate-health competencies in public health curriculum.
She has an active interest in health systems, SDGs, planetary health, ageing populations, health literacy and cross-sectoral collaborations. Tara is also a strong advocate for amplifying young voices in dialogue, research and practice, and is the Chair of the Health Literacy Explorers, International Health Literacy Association.

 


29 September 2022 | 14:00 | Online


Dr. Marise S. Kaper teacher and researcher at the Educations Dentistry, University Medical Center Groningen and Dental Hygiene at Hanze University of Applied Sciences, Groningen, The Netherlands

Evidence-based health literacy training for European health professionals to improve communication with patients

In the Netherlands, Marise Kaper obtained her PhD in Health Sciences at the University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) in June 2021, and her master’s degree in social psychology at the University of Groningen in 2011. From 2005 she has fulfilled various positions in the health care sector in the area of human resources, teaching and training, policy and research. Over the years, Marise has developed a keen interest in the health care sector and health promotion through effective communication and treatment by health professionals and organizations. 
As a PhD-candidate from 2014 – 2021, Marise Kaper was affiliated with the Department of Health Sciences at the UMCG and she has conducted research on the improvement of communication and provision of health care for patients with low health literacy, through competency development of health professionals and transformation of organizations. She received her PhD degree with the thesis: “Improving communication in healthcare for patients with low health literacy. Building competencies of health professionals and shifting towards health literacy friendly organizations”. 
Since 2019, Marise Kaper is employed as a teacher and researcher at the educations Dentistry (University of Groningen) and Dental Hygiene (Hanze University of Applied Sciences, Groningen). The evidence-based health literacy training was implemented in the curricula of both educations in the undergraduate (bachelor) and clinical phase (master). This is combined with research on the (long-term) outcomes of the training in education and clinical practice. 

 


11 January 2022 | 14:00 | Online

Professor Stephan Van den Broucke, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences and the Psychological Sciences Research Institute of the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium

Digital Health Literacy: A key condition for an equitable digital transition in healthcare
Stephan Van den Broucke is professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences and the Psychological Sciences Research Institute of the Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium). He previously held the positions of senior expert and head of research at the Flemish Institute for Health Promotion, project officer at the Executive Agency for Health and Consumers of the European Commission, part-time university lecturer at the Department of Psychology of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and associate professor at the International Health Department of Maastricht University, the Netherlands. His research focuses on preventive health behaviour change, health promotion, chronic disease self-management, health literacy, and public health capacity building. He has been promoter/coordinator or a principal investigator of more than 30 contracted research projects, including several international collaborative projects and European-funded projects, including the European Health Literacy Survey, Diabetes Literacy, Action-for Health, and IC-Health (H2020, 2017-2018), as well as several national multi-partner projects. He authored more than 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals as well as book chapters, reports and lay publications. He has been a guest lecturer at various universities as well as an advisor to the WHO and the European Commission, and is an elected Executive Board member and Vice-President for Scientific Affairs of the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE), member of the Social Sciences Advisory Group of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), and associate editor of the journal Health Promotion International.Stephan Van den Broucke is professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences and the Psychological Sciences Research Institute of the Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium). He previously held the positions of senior expert and head of research at the Flemish Institute for Health Promotion, project officer at the Executive Agency for Health and Consumers of the European Commission, part-time university lecturer at the Department of Psychology of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and associate professor at the International Health Department of Maastricht University, the Netherlands. His research focuses on preventive health behaviour change, health promotion, chronic disease self-management, health literacy, and public health capacity building. He has been promoter/coordinator or a principal investigator of more than 30 contracted research projects, including several international collaborative projects and European-funded projects, including the European Health Literacy Survey, Diabetes Literacy, Action-for Health, and IC-Health (H2020, 2017-2018), as well as several national multi-partner projects. He authored more than 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals as well as book chapters, reports and lay publications. He has been a guest lecturer at various universities as well as an advisor to the WHO and the European Commission, and is an elected Executive Board member and Vice-President for Scientific Affairs of the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE), member of the Social Sciences Advisory Group of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), and associate editor of the journal Health Promotion International.

 


16 November 2021 | 14:00 | Online
Peter J. Schulz
, Faculty of Communication Sciences, Institute of Communication & Health - University of Lugano (USI, Switzerland) 

Health Literacy, Internet, and the challenge of misinformation
Peter J. Schulz is Full Professor of Communication Theories and Health Communication at the University of Lugano, Switzerland. In his work, he has sought to bring together thinking from the humanities, social sciences, and information technology to investigate important issues in health communications. His recent work in the field of health communication research focuses on health literacy and empowerment, doctor-patient communication, and on media effect in the health domain such as the impact of Internet use on adolescents’ health. He has published more than 190 articles on health communication in a multitude of peer-reviewed publications. Together with Paul Cobley, London, he is an editor of the Series Handbooks of Communication Science (HoCS, 35 volumes, Berlin: DeGruyter & Mouton). Since 2017 he is also Honorary Professor at ANU (Australian National University, Canberra).
 

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