Based on a recently conducted survey in the UK, the Mental Health Foundation (UK) recommends that mental health literacy should be integrated into teacher training and also that schools should address mental health literacy promotion of their students embedded within the ‘whole-school approach’. All recommendations available  here.

A new short article on the national action plan for health literacy:

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HLCA will attend this year`s “A Child’s World Conference 2018 – New Shoes New Direction” from 11th-13th July 2018 at Aberystwyth University (Wales, UK) and have two oral presentations on:

1. Learning, education and the ethical question of what we offer to pupils (Ullrich Bauer and Uwe H. Bittlingmayer)
2. A review of health literacy of children and young people: definitions, interpretations, and implications for future research and practice initiatives (Paulo Pinheiro)

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Programm at al glance

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Promoting schoolchildren`s health literacy. Link zum Artikel.

The aim of this paper was to explore opportunities to promote schoolchildren’s health literacy based on their own experiences and ideas. Research suggests the necessity for health literacy to be included into the school curriculum, and to view health promotion as part of lifelong learning. There is also a need to involve schoolchildren in developing health literacy so they can find strategies to improve their health. Weiterlesen →

An interesting article on cultural health literacy from New Zealand has just been published in the Global Health Promotion Journal of the IUHPE:

Health literacy is a concept that is frequently applied to the patient’s ability to find and comprehend health information. However, recent literature has included the skill of the health professional and the accessibility of health resources as important factors in the level of health literacy achieved by individuals and populations. In 2014 a qualitative study Weiterlesen →

With the main objectives of the NRW state program “health and education” (Bildung und Gesundheit, BuG), which are to sustainably promote children`s and adolescent`s health, facilitate their educational opportunities, well-being, and the performance of adults working and/or engaging in schools, BuG also provides particular health and education goals that, too, address the promotion of health literacy prominently and also significantly contribute to BuG`s main objectives:

1. Promoting health literacy: i.a. health-related attitudes, health awareness, health behaviour, health experience of all involved in school (behavioural prevention)
2. Improving health-related conditions for all in schools (structural/systems-based/ecologic prevention)
3. Enhancing quality education and the quality of education in schools
4. Improving the integration of health promotion and prevention into education and science but most importantly into educational policy.

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We see great fit of our HLCA research activities to these goals, both with the projects of our first funding period as well as with the new projects of the second funding period 2018-2021. This is great news #healthliteracy

Three of the most recent publications of the HLCA consortium:

What are the family needs when a parent has mental health problems? Evidence from a systematic literature review

Health literacy in childhood and youth: a systematic review of definitions and models

Generic health literacy measurement instruments for children and adolescents: a systematic review of the literature

Conferences and activties

The projects have submitted workshop, presentation and pre-conference abstracts to the upcoming conferences of the IUHPE (10th IUHPE Europe conference) and EUPHA (11th European Public Health Conference).

On 1 March 2018, the HLCA research consoritum has launched its second funding period.