A patient’s health literacy is their ability to read, understand, and use health care information to make informed decisions and modify behaviours that affect their personal healthcare needs. Promoting health literacy creates a more collaborative care environment, one that empowers patients to have greater agency in, and control over, their own care decisions.

CCMI’s Health Literacy offerings emphasize the importance of being able to support patients and communicate clearly so that patients and family members can truly participate in care. Participants will gain an understanding of health literacy concepts and learn practical skills for engaging with patients to ensure clear and effective communication

FORMAT : This is a 2 part virtual series, 2 hours each session.

Zoom workshop details will be emailed directly to participants who register.

OBJECTIVES

At the end of this session, participants will be able to:

· Understand the similarities and differences between the terms “literacy” and “health literacy”

· Discover the relevance of health literacy on effective patient chronic disease self-management and why it is es