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According to WHO, Health Literacy is "being able to access, understand, appraise and use information and services in ways that promote and maintain good health and well-being". Health literacy can help us be better equipped to talk to professionals, speak up for ourselves and others, and see better outcomes from healthcare.

Extra reading: https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/health-literacy (WHO: Health Literacy)

#mentalhealth #healthliteracy #psychology #psychoeducation #information #graphicmedicine #education

Ben Harris-Roxas 4d ago

A new paper I was involved with is out. We reviewed 90 studies on health literacy for people with intellectual disability, their supporters and healthcare professionals. The main finding was it's relational, not individual, distributed across people, relationships and systems - not a skill you either have or don't.

The bit I keep thinking about is that our Lived Experience Reference Group asked why we hadn't captured independent decision-making (we'd focused on shared decision-making). They were right and we went back to answer that.

Open access paper in Health Expectations. Led by my brilliant UNSW colleague Maryann Barrington with a genuinely great team.

https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.70548

#HealthLiteracy #IntellectualDisability #HealthEquity

ludwig thiry 5d ago

Wenn mangelnde Gesundheitskompetenz, unterfinanzierte Kommunen und Fehlallokationen im Gesundheitssystem aufeinander treffen, entsteht genau jenes Gebräu, von dem die extreme Rechte profitiert.
https://www.rnd.de/politik/brandenburg-patienten-in-cottbus-muessen-fuer-notruf-und-rettungsdienst-zahlen-YBBMD6GP3ZEUDNUOG7SEPENZ6I.html

#HealthLiteracy #HealthEquity #Gesundheit #Demokratie

Rettungsdienst auf eigene Rechnung: Erste Großstadt in Brandenburg lässt Patienten für Notruf zahlen

Wer die 112 ruft, muss zahlen: Weil sich Cottbus nicht mit den Krankenkassen über die Gebührenkalkulation einigen kann, legt die Stadt die Kosten auf Patienten um. Die ersten Rechnungen sollen bereits Ende März ausgestellt werden – zunächst rückwirkend für Januar 2025.

RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland

HPV-FASTER-Implement Mar 3

UBB leads eHealth literacy and digital education work in HPV-FASTER-Implement, supporting vulnerable populations and strengthening HPV awareness through participatory, evidence-based approaches.#HPVFASTERImplement #DigitalHealth #HealthLiteracy #CervicalCancerPrevention #EUProject

HybridMind42 & Marvin the Cat Feb 3

Across a woman’s life there are three major physiological transitions: puberty, pregnancy/childbirth, and menopause.
Medicine tends to treat them as separate stories. Lived experience often doesn’t.
This essay explores a single regulatory pattern that reappears across these stages — sometimes as overwhelm, sometimes as crisis, sometimes much later as muscle cramps or autonomic symptoms — not as pathology, but as boundary dynamics under changing conditions.
It’s about recognition, not diagnosis.
About regulation, not “coping better”.
And about why many women sense continuity where systems see fragments.
If this resonates — for you, your daughters, or your patients — you’re not imagining the pattern.

https://open.substack.com/pub/hybridmind42/p/boundary-transitions-in-female-physiology?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=75c2ac

#WomensHealth #Menopause #Perimenopause #Puberty #Pregnancy
#BoundaryDynamics #RegulationNotPathology #ListenToWomen #HealthLiteracy

Boundary Transitions in Female Physiology

Recognising Recurrent Regulatory Patterns Across the Lifespan

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ludwig thiry Feb 2

Rita Süßmuth hat uns gelehrt, dass in Gesundheitsfragen zielgruppenspezifische Aufklärung und Freiwilligkeit zwei Seiten derselben Medaille sind.
Ein Wissen, das die Gesundheitspolitik in D weitgehend verloren hat. Wir liegen bei #HealthLiteracy und #HealthEquity weit zurück.

Paul Belcher FRCP MFPH Hon 🇪🇺🇬🇧Jan 16

#HealthLiteracy: "A much heralded overhaul of #Poland’s health education programme has become a target for right wing and religious groups that could have major consequences for #SexualHealth and #disinformation" @[email protected] www.bmj.com/content/392/...

“It became a joke”—how Poland’...

“It became a joke”—how Poland’s government lost the battle over health literacy to the church and right wing groups

A much heralded overhaul of Poland’s health education programme has become a target for right wing and religious groups that could have major consequences for sexual health and disinformation. Anna Caldwell reports On 1 September 2025, the Polish Ministry of National Education’s new health education programme began. Aimed at young people aged 10 to 19, it is intended to educate children on how to live healthy lives, deal appropriately with stress, and gain an awareness of contemporary threats, including health misinformation and disinformation, as well as understanding online security.1 But the curriculum has been derailed after major backlash from the Catholic Church and right wing groups. The new programme replaced traditional “family life education” classes that were largely based on Catholic doctrine, focused on promoting stable marriage and supporting family procreation. Plans to make the health education programme mandatory were scrapped on 15 January 2025, when it was made voluntary as a political compromise to avoid a multi-party coalition crisis due to the syllabus’ controversy. In August, the Polish Catholic Church appealed for parents to remove their children from participating in what it called the “systemic depravity” of the “demoralising classes.”2 Bishops have dubbed the syllabus “anti-family” and “gender destabilising.”3 Preliminary data provided to the Polish Press Agency by Warsaw City Hall show that, varying by region, approximately 60-80% of students withdrew from …

The BMJ

ThiryL Jan 13

Heute Morgen in WDR5. Im Morgenecho Berichte und Interviews zum Thema #Longevity. Mit dem Fokus auf Medikamente. Die Wunderpille für ein langes Leben wird gesucht. So ein Pech, die Forscherin empfiehlt möglichst wenig Stress.

Später im Programm: Ernährungsarmut. Ein großer Teil der Bevölkerung kann sich keine vollwertigen Mahlzeiten mehr leisten.

Nachdenken über #Prävention und #HealthLiteracy macht nur Sinn, wenn wir auch über #HealthEquity nachdenken.
https://www1.wdr.de/radio/wdr5/sendungen/neugier-genuegt/feature-ernaehrungsarmut-100.html

@why_not

Ernährungsarmut in Deutschland

Kein Geld für gesunde Lebensmittel, ohne Frühstück in die Schule, Mahlzeiten auslassen: Fast jede achte Person in NRW ist nicht in der Lage, sich jeden zweiten Tag eine vollwertige Mahlzeit zu leisten.

Stefano Gandolfi 甘昊然 Dec 8

Sono felice di condividere la pubblicazione del capitolo:

📖 𝗛𝗣𝗩𝗼𝗶𝗰𝗲: 𝗰𝗼-𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘂𝗻𝗮 𝗰𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗴𝗻𝗮 𝗱𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗹𝗮 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗼𝘇𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗮 𝘃𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘇𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼 𝗶𝗹 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗼𝗺𝗮 𝗩𝗶𝗿𝘂𝘀, all’interno del volume “Health Community Lab. Un modello di co-creazione per l’innovazione sociale e sanitaria in Toscana” (FrancoAngeli, 2025). https://series.francoangeli.it/index.php/oa/catalog/download/1510/1923/8319?inline=1#page=92

👉 Il progetto HPVoice nasce con l’obiettivo di coinvolgere attivamente gli studenti nella prevenzione, attraverso strumenti digitali e comunicativi co-creati con loro. Un’esperienza che dimostra quanto la partecipazione della comunità possa rafforzare la salute pubblica e le politiche vaccinali.

📌 Il capitolo fa parte della ricerca dello Spoke 10 – Population Health del Tuscany Health Ecosystem (PNRR – Next Generation EU).

🆓 Qui il volume completo Open Access: https://francoangeli.it/Libro/Health-Community-Lab-Un-modello-di-co-creazione-per-l’innovazione-sociale-e-sanitaria-in-Toscana?Id=30401

Grazie al team HPVoice: Dario Menicagli, Virginia Casigliani, Elisa Betti, Folco Panizza. Grazie anche a tutti i partner e ai professionisti che hanno reso possibile questo percorso di co-creazione.

💡 La salute non si comunica ai giovani, ma con i giovani.

#HPV #Vaccinazione #SalutePubblica #Prevenzione #CoCreazione #CommunityEngagement #HealthLiteracy #InnovazioneSociale #TuscanyHealthEcosystem #PNRR

News Literacy Project Nov 10

Three red flags that heath info might be faulty: 🚩 Questionable sources 🚩 Shaky evidence, such as personal anecdotes 🚩 One-off, outlier studies 🔗 Help boost students' resilience to health & science misinformation: newslit.org/wellness #HealthWellness #HealthLiteracy #MediaLiteracy