The EUPHA Working Group on Health Literacy aims to:
- Facilitate and promote the latest research, best practice examples and measures, training and education opportunities in academic and non-academic fields, and policy action related to health literacy
- Endorse capacity building and sustainable development of the professional field of health literacy, including further literacy concepts relevant to health, and access to and use of health information by individuals
In particular, we will endorse interaction among the members, foster their collaboration, and at the same time serve as a European communication and network hub to promote and strengthen the role of health literacy. This includes addressing the capacity of (human) producers, users or mediators of health information, and the designed information environment that influences how people access, search for, receive, process, feel about and act on health information.
We understand health literacy as intersecting with many of the core topics and themes of EUPHA’s Sections, which is why collaboration and exchange with the Sections is essential to our overall strategy. Finally, our Working Group will engage in outreach and communication with networks, associations, agencies, and governmental and non-governmental organizations to represent the topic of health literacy from the perspective of EUPHA.
