Journal article
Key lessons for designing health literacy professional development courses
L Naccarella, B Murphy
Australian Health Review | CSIRO PUBLISHING | Published : 2018
DOI: 10.1071/AH17049
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Abstract
Health literacy courses for health professionals have emerged in response to health professionals' perceived lack of understanding of health literacy issues, and their failure to routinely adopt health literacy practices. Since 2013 in Victoria, Australia, the Centre for Culture, Ethnicity and Health has delivered an annual health literacy demonstration training course that it developed. Course development and delivery partners included HealthWest Partnership and cohealth. The courses are designed to develop the health literacy knowledge, skills and organisational capacity of the health and community services sector in the western metropolitan region of Melbourne. This study presents key lea..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This evaluation was funded via a partnership between the Centre for Culture, Ethnicity and Health, HealthWest Partnership and cohealth. The authors particularly thank all the evaluation participants, because without their cooperation this work would not have been possible. The authors also thank Cath Lancaster, Health Promotion Project Lead at cohealth, for her comments on earlier drafts of this manuscript.