WORKSHOP of the working group "HPH and Health Literate Health Care Organizations" Implementing and Piloting the “International Self-Assessment Tool for Organizational Health Literacy (Responsiveness) of Hospitals (OHL-Hos)”
PELIKAN Jürgen, LEVIN-ZAMIR Diane, NOWAK Peter, STRASSMAYR Christa ***Aims / Rationale / Purpose: To present and discuss the ”International Self-Assessment Tool Organizational Health Literacy in health care organizations (hospitals)” developed by a HPH international Working Group on “Health Promoting Hospitals and Health Literate Health Care Organizations (HPH & HLO).” To discuss and plan translations of the instrument in further languages and piloting and validating it in different countries / networks of HPH. ***Session design: The session will start with a short introduction by participants. Then inputs on the background on measuring organizational health literacy/health literate organizations /organizational health literacy responsiveness will be provided and the self-assessment tool will be presented. First results from the Austrian pilot will be presented. Depending on number of participants, either small working groups will be established, or single participants will be asked to discuss a number of questions concerning the tool and its possible implementation in hospitals and other health care services. Finally, next steps for translating, piloting, and validating the instrument in different countries will be discussed in the plenary. ***Contact: PELIKAN Jürgen, Gesundheit Österreich GmbH, juergen.pelikan@goeg.at