Dear All
I'm doing some research into health literacy in community health settings - thought this would be
a good forum to hear a range of views, especially from disabled people who have been on the
receiving end of health assessments and interventions. The overall goal of the project is to
improve communication between professionals and service users, but seeing it as professionals'
responsibility to ask the right sort of questions and develop their own communication strategies. Responses to any of these questions would be very helpful:
I've come across lots of definitions of health literacy - what (if anything) does this term mean to
you?
What knowledge/experience do you have of health workers making an effort to find out
something about the skills/understandings/communication style of disabled people they work
with?
Some definitions of health literacy include skills in critical thinking about health, collective
organising, addressing health inequalities. Have you found that health workers are interested in
these sort of competencies? Should they be?
Any further thoughts you have on these issues would be gratefully received. Feel free to forward
this message to other forums where you think people might be interested (please let me know
where, so I can follow up on responses!)
Many thanks
Deborah
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