1. Health literacy in a lifecourse perspective FUTURE HEALTHCARE - AD 2030 SUMMIT CONFERENCE IN COPENHAGEN APRIL 11-12, 2018  
FUTURE HEALTHCARE - AD 2030
SUMMIT CONFERENCE IN COPENHAGEN - APRIL 11-12, 2018
Jeg ville nok tale om betydningen af at man tænker HL ind i forskellige organisationsniveauer også – for at styrke borgerens empowerment mv – men lad mig lige høre lidt nærmere om formen?
10 min
Professor Helle Terkildsen Maindal, MPH, Ph.D.,
Aarhus University, SDCC, Health Promotion

3. Strategies for Hl in all populations and in all educational settings
Determinant of health
Strategies for Hl in all populations and in all educational settings
Empower people – also through digital tech.
considerable synergies across goals.
Moreover, taking into account the ambition and broad scope of Agenda 2030, progress will only be
achieved through a new global partnership bringing together a range of stakeholders, as envisioned in
Goal 17. Examples of roles for stakeholders in advancing health literacy and the SDGs include:
 Government – develop policies and plans on health literacy promotion, including sustained funding,
systematic intervention and surveillance; work across sectors for win-wins and meet obligations to
provide people with accurate, up to date information that is unbiased by undue influence from
outside the health sector.
 Civil society – work together to bring different expertise, experiences and capacities to bear in
community-based communication and health literacy efforts in all kinds of settings throughout the
life course.
#HealthInSDGs
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 Media (including social media) – serve as a critical platform for health literacy messaging,
harnessing the idealism and enthusiasm of youth, and meeting an ethical threshold for accuracy to
support, rather than subvert, people’s right to health.
 Organizations of the UN system – develop guidelines and tools for health literacy intervention and
measurement; support governments to integrate health literacy promotion across sectors, including
through the UNDG’s Mainstreaming, Acceleration and Policy Support (MAPS) approach to SDG
implementation.xv
 Community leaders – provide risk communication, particularly during times of crisis, as seen
recently in the response to Ebola and Zika. WHO’s Framework for Country Action across Sectors for
Health and Health Equity recognizes the importance of “training leaders in techniques to support
and enable an informed community.”xvi
 Research and academic institutions – develop and improve methods to measure health literacy,
collate and distribute examples of best practice in health literacy intervention development, and
provide evidence of what works, in which contexts, and why.
Enviromental support

4. Health literacy required for...
Access and utilization of health care
Interacting with health services and providers
Health Literacy
Empowerment, self-management and caring for your own health
Participating in health discussions and decision-making
Clinical setting
Coommunity settings

6. Health literacy and life course
Handler ikke kun om education – or the individual person
Prof Terkildsen Maindal
Health literacy and life course
Helle Terkildsen Maindal

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But more the context
Friis, Maindal et al, 2014
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8. Health equity through action on the social determinants of health
WHO model for (in)equity. Health literacy = blue circles
Quality of life and life expectancy
Context
Social health determinants
Social position
Individual
Life conditions
Health behaviour
Biology…
Society
Health services
Equity
Incorporate the social determinants of health into medical
and health training, and improve social determinants of
health literacy more widely. Train policy-makers and
planners in the use of health equity impact assessment.
Based on: CSDH (2008). Closing the gap in a generation: health equity through action on the social determinants of health. Final Report of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health. Geneva, World Health Organization.
Prof Terkildsen Maindal
Health literacy and life course

9. Health literacy is to be build in and outside the health systems
Education
Society and culture

10. Areas of action Sustainable communities and places
Healthy Standard of Living
Early Years
Skills Development
Employment and Work
Prevention
Figuren viser her, hvordan at positive og negative effekter akkumuleres over tid
Marmot, M. (2010). Fair society, healthy lives The Marmot review Executive Summary. London: The Marmot Review.
Prof Terkildsen Maindal
Health literacy and life course

11. How to become a health literacy responsive organisation/system?
Cultural competences, education, empwerment

12. Health literacy and life course
Thank you
Prof Terkildsen Maindal
Health literacy and life course