Health literacy and difficult target groups

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Causes of more low literacy among elderly?

  • 'Use it or lose it'
  • Cognitive decline
  • Less computer skills

How does Pharos help organisations to become more accessible for the low health literate group?

  • Raising awareness
  • Advising organisations
  • Training professionals
  • Make understandable information
  • Reach low SES people
  • Culture sensitive health care

Steps in creating storytelling and role models for education purposes in low health literate groups?

  1. Interviewing target group
  2. Making a main character they can identify with
  3. Making a story that tells their story
  4. Sketches by medical illustrator > feedback > images
  5. Testing the text and images among target groups
  6. Final version
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Dutch Alliance on Health Literacy?

A network of organizations that strives to create an inclusive society and health care sector, so that low health literate people also can receive good health care (health literate organizations).

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