Judy King, PT, PhD
University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON
Session Description
60% of Canadian adults are unable to obtain, understand and act upon health information and services and to make appropriate health decisions on their own according to the Public Health Agency of Canada. This is often unappreciated among highly educated health care professionals, who are often not aware that they must modify their patient education practices to ensure understanding and safety. This is compounded by the fact that both reliable as well as unreliable or even misinformation is readily available to both patients and health care professionals.
This often results in a gap between what patients understand and what health care professionals expect them to know or think they know.
This interactive presentation will provide an overview of health literacy as well as provide participants with evidenced based patient education strategies to optimize the care of people living with respiratory conditions.
Learning Objectives
At the end of this presentation, participants will be able to:
- Describe how health literacy impacts on respiratory care.
- Recognize and identify challenges faced by people living with respiratory conditions when accessing and appraising health-related information.
- Identify specific strategies to reduce some of these challenges faced by patients in their own practice regardless of role or clinical setting.
CanMEDs Roles: Collaborator, Communicator, Health Advocate
