Health Literacy: Making the most of health

• HL and Health Inequalities in the UK
• The Economic costs of low HL
• HL and productive business
• HL and lifestyle choices
• Using HL to support informed lifestyle choices

Day 2

• Concepts and definitions of HL
• Health Literacy and health outcomes
• Assessing the impact of HL

Day 3

• HL and communities
• HL and lifelong learning
• HL and evidence based health, education and social policy

• What is currently known on this topic in the UK and internationally?
• Viewing current knowledge on this topic in the UK context: how does it link with policy?
• Interactive discussion: where to in for this topic in the UK? What do we need to know? What are the research and development questions?

Nicola Gray University of Nottingham, Joanne Protheroe University of Manchester, Jonathan Berry ContinYou

International: Rima Rudd Harvard School of Public Health, Scott Murray DataAngel, Canada,

Diane Levin, Tel Aviv, Israel, Deborah Begoray University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada,

Doris Gillis, St Francis Xavier University Nova Scotia, Canada Albert Lee, Chinese University, Hong Kong, Michael Wolf, NorthWestern University, Chicago, US.