malmoe migration conference march 2014

Health literacy in Europe – what is on the agenda

Kristine Sørensen & Markia [email protected] June 2014

Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences


HLS-EU The MovieThe European Health Literacy Project

http://HLS-EU The Movie


European HL policy development: work in progress


Defining and conceptualizing health literacy


The HLS-EU-Q indices


HLS-EU Results: General health literacy


Persentage of limited HL in vulnerable groups for total group


HL and self-reported health


HL and health service use


Health literacy is a European public health challenge!


HL integrated in policy strategies

• EU’s Together for Health 2008-2013


HL integrated in policy strategies

• 3rd health programme of the European Union 2014-2020


HL integrated in strategies

• WHO Europe’s Health 2020


Health literacy is on the European health agenda!


European HL policy development: work in progress


Health literacy focus in practice is lacking, also concerning migrants


Health literacy and migrants

• A literature review of European based migrant and health literacy studies

• Scope study: need assessment concerning migrant mothers for European Public Health Alliance

• Health literacy survey among Turkish migrants in the Limburg region, NL


Results of need assessment


Summary of results


“especially important in the case of promoting health and active participation in the society-it should be made clear to everybody, including those outside the regular care sector, that the places where the migrants live and their children play and grow, should be as health-promoting and sustaining as possible”.


• “In order for migrant women to be able to effectively use and apply information about risk behaviour and preventative actions, they need to have their basic needs met and to have the autonomy to make decisions of this kind”.


Health literacy focus in practice is lacking, also concerning migrants


If one is truly to succeed in leading a person to a specific place, one must first and foremost take care to find him where he is and begin there.

(Søren Kierkegaard)


Thank you for making a health literate difference!

malmoe migration conference march 2014

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life sciences european

general health literacy

european health agenda

health service use

selfreported health

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