Transforming health services: does health literacy provide the key?

Does health literacy provide an answer to the quest to support people to take control of their own health and care, to more equitable health care and health outcomes and to a sustainable NHS?

Watch this lecture which Professor Richard Osborne - Chair in Public Health in the School of Health and Social Development at Deakin University, Australia - delivered at the Health Foundation in November 2014.

[mehnazhossain]

I felt that the length of time for specific medication patients could be communicated, it at least helps for mental planning. Time is something that is included in experiments. It helps to plan, for the duration of treatment, it is highly unlikely that you would know for prescribed medications, the details of the patient information sheet, particularly in the community.

[mehnazhossain]

This was put up around 8 years ago, and only 100 people watched it, although, for professionals, it's for everyone.