Health Literacy Intensive
Date and time
Location
Griffith University, Logan Campus
68 University Drive Meadowbrook, QLD 4131 AustraliaDescription
This event is appropriate for health practitioners and community workers.
This workshop explores health literacy at multiple levels. Participants explore strategies and tools to improve client/patient understanding of written and spoken health information. Participants then identify how they can embed organisation-wide health literacy strategies into systems, operations, planning and workforce development.
Course outcomes – on completion of this course participants will be able to:
• Identify principles of health literacy and models of practice.
• Apply tools to improve clients’ understanding of health information.
• Identify where their organisation can best undertake action on health literacy.
Presenter: Siri Gunawardana, Centre for Culture, Ethnicity and Health (CEH)
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Brisbane South PHN is a not-for-profit organisation that supports primary health and directly commissions services to shape a health system that delivers better health outcomes for Brisbane south.