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UK Health Literacy Seminar: Learning is Good for Your Health

UK Health Literacy Seminar: Learning is Good for Your Health.

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UK Health Literacy Seminar: Learning is Good for Your Health

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  1. UK Health Literacy Seminar: Learning is Good for Your Health

  2. Education Scotland was established on 1 July 2011 by the Scottish Government Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning as a new public body, charged with supporting quality and improvement in Scottish education and thereby securing the delivery of better learning experiences and outcomes for Scottish learners of all ages.

  3. Think Literacies Number Skills Reading Writing Listening Literacies Handling information Speaking Solving problems Expressing ideas & opinions

  4. Adult Literacies in Scotland 2020 Vision ‘By 2020 Scotland's society and economy will be stronger because more of its adults are able to read, write and use numbers effectively in order to handle information, communicate with others, express ideas and opinions, make decisions and solve problems as family members, workers, citizens and lifelong learners.’

  5. ALIS2020 Activity

  6. Did you know that in Scotland… more than 1 in 4 people of working age sometimes face literacies challenges, even though they generally cope with their daily lives?

  7. Did you know that in Scotland… 1 in 28 people of working age face serious literacies issues in their daily lives?

  8. Literacies issues can have an impact on… • health and well-being • employability and work • family life • financial capacity

  9. Learning is Good for Your Health Aim The guide offers adult learning providers information on how to raise awareness and encourage literacies referrals from NHS sources.

  10. Learning is Good for Your Health Objectives The guide will help learning providers to: • Identify ways to engage with local NHS organisations based on the experience of others who have undertaken this work. • Provide local NHS organisations with awareness raising information relevant to the health sector.

  11. Learning is Good for Your Health Outcomes The information in the guide can support learning providers to develop awareness raising activities with the following outcomes: • Health staff are aware of literacies issues and their impact on patients’ health and wellbeing. • Health staff know how to broach the subject of literacies with patients and where to signpost.

  12. Learning is Good for Your Health 1. Building relationships in the NHS2. Using evidence for awareness raising 3. Other activities, resources and case studies 4. An ESOL literacies perspective 5. Specific Learning Difficulties and adult literacies

  13. Learning is Good for Your Health Building relationships in the NHS • 14 Area Health Boards • Community Health Partnerships • Aligning literacies work with health promotion and • health improvement • Health inequalities associated with literacies • Impact of Literacies challenges and the patient journey

  14. Learning is Good for Your Health Using evidence for awareness raising • National Evidence - SSAL (2009): • 26.7% may face occasional challenges and constrained • opportunities • 3.6% face serious challenges in their literacies practices • People who score lowest are considerably more likely to be 56-65 • There was evidence that people from the 15% most deprived areas • tend to have lower scores, and these results were statistically • significant.

  15. Learning is Good for Your Health Using evidence for awareness raising International Evidence The Scottish Government’s Health Literacy – A Scoping Study (2009) lists international evidence suggesting patients with low health literacy: • Are less able to self manage. • Have less knowledge about health- promoting behaviours. • Are less likely to be aware and make use of prevention facilities. • Are less likely to adhere to prescribed courses of treatment. • Have poorer health status and poorer self-reported health. • Have poorer health outcomes including knowledge, intermediate disease markers, and measures of morbidity.

  16. Learning is Good for Your Health Other activities, resources and case studies • Case Studies: • Volunteer Centre (Glasgow) MA has the confidence to do more • Bridgeton Community Learning Campus, Countdown • East End, Glasgow: Learner A has been able to build • confidence and apply for a college course • BULB Literacy Partnership, Glasgow

  17. Learning is Good for Your Health An ESOL literacies perspective • Highlights potential literacies issues for ESOL learners: • Oral cultures • No reading and writing skills in language one • Limited skills in language one • Unfamiliar with Romanic Scripts

  18. Learning is Good for Your Health • Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLDs) • and adult literacies • Highlights potential issues for learners with SpLDs: • difficulties with short-term memory and • working memory • • organisational difficulties • • orientation and coordination difficulties • • environmental preferences • • learning preferences • • physical and mental health issues

  19. Learning is Good for Your Health Questions?

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