Low-threshold communication gives cheaper and better health care

'Heerlijk Helder in de Zorg' (Wonderfully clear in health care)'Low-threshold communication is the key challenge for healthcare environments of the future.'

Four in ten Belgian adults have an insufficient or limited health literacy. What does that mean? That they are not (properly) able to find or understand (reliable) health care information, and apply it to their own situation. In other words, 40% of adult Belgians are unable to follow a doctor's advice correctly. A low level of health literacy is bad for the patient's health and for the wallets of both the patient and the welfare State, which gets additional costs.

A team from the Thomas More College in Mechelen (Belgium) has developed a toolkit, which allows health-care providers to recognise low health literacy, and gives practical insights into perhaps the most important condition for a good health care: low-threshold communication.

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Author: Dries Debackere

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Source language: Nederlands (nl)


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