Third European Health Literacy Conference, Brussels 18-19 November

Following the IROHLA final conference (see news item) a two day conference celebrated the third Health Literacy Conference (the previous year being held in Aarhus, Denmark). The full programme is here. There were a rich variety of presentations, all of which can be retrieved from the Conference website, but for ease of reference, here are a small selection. Firstly a review of Health Literacy across Europe from Dr Jany Rademakers of NIVEL click here, then a report from Dr. van den Broucke on the Diabetes literacy project, enhancing self-management click here, an interesting paper on Health Literacy and eHealth from Dr. E. Pohl click here and finally an introduction to the new follow-on website, mainly supported by the IROHLA project leaders, Groningen University, the url of the web portal being http://healthliteracycentre.eu/