Introduction
The effects of low health literacy go well beyond just poorer health and well-being outcomes; low health literacy has been demonstrated to predict lower levels of engagement by service users with health services and public health campaigns. Consequently, populations who struggle with literacy demonstrate also struggle with chronic condition self-management, show fewer health promoting behaviours, higher rates of hospitalisation, difficulty in verbal communicating with health care providers, and poorer health status in general.
Course Aims
The three-day health literacy short course is designed for those wishing to enhance the impact and effectiveness of their practice, policy and planning by better understanding and responding to the health literacy needs of service users, communities and the health care system. The course will introduce and explore the concept of health literacy; examine how health literacy is related to enhanced individual, community and system outcomes; provide insight and examples about how health literacy outcomes can be enhanced; and examine current approaches to the implementation and/or development of best-practice health literacy practices and programs. There will also be ample opportunity for networking and sharing experiences; working on your own material and policies, and what this may mean for your own practice and approach to policy and planning.
Who can attend this course?
The course is open to anyone involved, or wanting to be involved, in health literacy and health communication. As such, this course is relevant to practitioners, managers, and planners working in the health, community services, education, justice, sport and recreation, not-for-profit, corporate, and government sectors.
Course Dated
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20 July 2011 |
Brochure will be uploaded and can be downloaded soon for 2012 - Please check again soon |
Course structure
- - Understanding Health Literacy.
- - Social Models of Health and determinants.
- - Measuring health literacy
- - Health Literacy research and findings
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- - Screening tools for health communication
- - Good practices in preparing materials.
- - Health literacy tools for vulnerable communities.
- - Preparation of group presentation.
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- - Health literacy policy development for your organisation
- - Evaluating health literacy interventions
- - Group presentations and personal development plans.
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Course Registration
| Brochure will be uploaded and can be downloaded soon for 2012 - Please check again soon |
$1320 (including GST)
- A discount of $150 is available for participants who have attended a Health Literacy orientation workshop
provided by the Department of Health Social Science or Master of Public Health
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Admission to the entire Program
Course Materials
Morning and afternoon tea
NB: Accomodation and lunches not included in the admission fee
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Course Facilitators
Course Venue
Location to be advised for 2012
Contact Details
Jade Kerr
Short Course Administrative Officer
Department of Health and Social Science.
Building F, Level 5. Monash University,
900 Dandenong Road
Caulfield East Victoria 3145
Telephone: +61 3 9903 1657
Fax: +61 3 9903 1658
Email: healthsocialscience@monash.edu
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