building capacity to increase health literacy in china dr. ruotao wang md, phd, msl member of cclh...
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Building Capacity to Increase Health Literacy in China
Dr. Ruotao Wang MD, PhD, MSL
Member of CCLH
27 April 2009
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Emphasizing Three Issues
• Understand Health Literacy Better
• Education and Health Service Providers are the Key Stakeholders for Increasing Health Literacy in Chinese Citizens.
• Personal Communication and Community Based Outreach Skills are the Most Needed Skills for the Key Stakeholders in order to Increase and Sustain
Health Literacy of Chinese Citizens .
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Understand Health Literacy Better
• Pre-conditions for Building Health Literacy
• Two Perspectives in Understanding Health Literacy
• Three Levels in Health Literacy Progress
• Health Literacy is One of the Four Fundamental Determinants of Health
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Pre-conditions for Building Health Literacy
• Literacy originally means to have capacity of reading, writing, and arithmetically accounting---basic language and numerical literacy
• General literacy in an information era---capacity of seeking, understanding, analyzing relevant information, and then making a proper decision---ethical and social literacy as well as scientific and technological literacy
• Specific literacy for health---health literacy
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Two Perspective in Understanding Health Literacy
• Clinical Medicine Perspective---
• Public Health Perspective---
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Three Levels in Health Literacy Progress
• Functional--- capacity in compliance with medical care providers or/and public health workers
• Interactive--- capacity to communicate and discuss with medical care providers or/and public health workers
• Critical--- capacity to critically analyze relavent information and self-efficaciously make a health related decision
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Health Literacy is One of the Four Determinants of Health
• Four Fundamental Determinants of Health
• Genetic make-up and Natural Environment
• Social and Economical Environment
• Health Technology and Service System
• Individual life-style and health literacy
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• Education and Health Service Providers are the Key Stakeholders for Increasing Health Literacy in Chinese Citizens
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Health Literacy is the Outcome of Health Education
• Family Education• School Education• Ethical and Humanistic Education• Rational and Scientific Education• Mass Media Communication• Organizational and Personal Communication • Patients Education and Communication
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From Definition To Measurement
• Health literacy could have the universal definition, but the instrument to measure it might be context & culture depended.
• Health literacy, by definition, is a living CAPACITY, rather than a fixed items of knowledge and behavior, however, when we actually measure it---CONTENTS dependent.
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• Where Health Literacy of Chinese Citizens Currently Stands ?
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Develop an instrument to measure Health Literacy in China
• In 2005 a project was implemented for exploring the evaluation of health literacy in China
• A national wide survey was conducted in 2008 for evaluation of the level of health literacy in Chinese citizens----a questionnaire developed based on Health Literacy 66
• --- Contents Fixed Functional Literacy
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Need An Action to Increase Health Literacy for Chinese Citizens!
• According to the 2005 and 2008 survey, there is a big gap between what we stand and where we want to go!
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• Four components---basic knowledge, believes/values, behaviors, and skills
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Recent Initiatives to Increase Health Literacy in China
• A book published with a title of Health Literacy 66---reading materials for Chinese citizens.
• . • A national health literacy contests were
carried out to increase the public awareness, especially among Chinese farmers.
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• Personal Communication and Community Based Outreach Skills are the Most Needed Skills for the Key Stakeholders in order to Increase and Sustain health Literacy of
Chinese Citizens
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Factors Shaping Health Literacy in Chinese Population
• Education needs to include health education from the beginning---from basic literacy to general and then to specific.
• Mass Media---from raising the awareness to health agenda setting, from message distribution to value/believe preference.
• Health Care Services System---Negotiation and communication with patients and their families.
• Public Health Education--- More Community based Outreach adapted to specific Socio-Cultural Context and Environment
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Various Stakeholders
• Government leaders and officers • Educators in schools and other educational
institutes • Health care providers and health
practitioners • News Reporters and Public Stars (TV,
Movies…) • Patients and their families
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Multi-sectoral Cooperation in Better IEC for Advanced Health literacy
• Capacity of evaluating various health information for its credibility and quality, analyzing related health risk and benefits in a complex modern society.
• Capacity of communication and dialogue among patients, their medical care providers, and health insurance agency.
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