开始时间: 04/22/2022 持续时间: Unknown
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所在平台: CourseraArchive 课程类别: 医学 大学或机构: University of Nebraska 授课老师： Denise H. Britigan |
课程主页: https://www.coursera.org/course/healthliteracy
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This inter-professional course will help educate a variety of health professionals about health literacy efforts and improved communication skills. It will require your active participation in creating health literate interactions at various organizational levels. This course will provide the opportunity to reinforce existing opportunities to work together as a multidisciplinary team or fill a gap if you haven’t had an opportunity to do so yet!
Upon completion of the course, you will be able to:
1) Define and describe health literacy and how it applies to all health disciplines;
2) Explain the various factors/social determinants that influence health literacy;
3) Determine the stakeholders in health literacy and their roles;
4) Recognize the consequences of limited health literacy;
5) Identify the impact health literacy makes in meeting core health service needs across disciplines;
6) Apply strategies to improve health literacy at the group, organizational, community, and policy levels.
In addition to these course objectives, it is key to the success of the student that participants understand their responsibilities of working as a part of an inter-professional health care team. The basis of patient-centered care and the foundation of the medical home model is that health professionals will learn and implement skills to meet the community’s health needs in the context of the community’s daily lives—which is their reality! That includes recognizing the social determinants of health, such as complex social, economic, environmental, and political factors, that impact both the public’s wellness and their health literacy, too.
One initial step – a recommended prerequisite to beginning this online course – is to first complete the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s self-directed online training, “Health Literacy for Public Health Professionals”. It provides a good foundation about health literacy in three brief, interactive lessons which will take about 1.5-2 hours to complete.
We are also using the Institute of Medicine’s Roundtable on Health Literacy discussion paper, “Ten Attributes of Health Literate Health Care Organizations” as a guide. This online course will assist its participants in understanding that health literacy needs to be an organizational value and embraced as part of the organization’s core business.
A phrase that we often like to use is “help a person connect the dots”. By this we mean we need to make sure that understanding of health information exists. An example of this would be thinking if someone is advised they need to take a medication, or told they need to change daily choices and behaviors to improve health that it will simply happen as directed. But, there are many necessary steps, strategies, and skills in communication for the advice being given to actually happen. Often, current health professionals and health care settings often assume that “one size fits all” when it comes to communicating health messages. This course will focus on some approaches to becoming a health literate health care organization by using scenarios with actors based on patient experiences, by also letting patients share their experiences in their own words, and by offering suggestions for improvement in health communication.
We hope you join us and become an agent of change both in your own discipline and as a member of an inter-professional team in health care organizations going forward!
The course consists of the following eight modules:
Each module in
this course will focus on one or two attributes to guide you in exploring an action in your discipline as well as how being a member of an
inter-professional team has advantages for improving organizational responses
to health literacy.
In the United States, two-thirds of the population read at an eight-grade level or below. When it comes to health information, most Americans have the ability to read and write at the fifth-grade level. This inter-professional course aims to give health professionals the tools needed to improve upon their health literacy and communication skills.
