National Health Literacy Strategy Framework Consultation
In brief
Research Australia supported the draft National Health Literacy Strategy and asked for a funded research program to show what works. It also asked for researchers to be named as partners, for wider promotion of trusted government health websites, and for older Australians to be a priority group.
Abstract
This document reproduces Research Australia’s responses to the Department of Health’s October 2022 consultation on a draft National Health Literacy Strategy, developed under the National Preventive Health Strategy 2021–2030. Research Australia supports the Strategy’s vision, principles and aims and recommends that it include a funded research agenda, that researchers be named among its partners, and that the Government build on increased public trust in government health websites during COVID-19, shown in Research Australia’s 2022 poll, by promoting health literacy resources there. It also recommends making older Australians, including their interactions with aged care, a specific target group.
| Published | 8 November 2022 |
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| Type | Submission |
| Platform | Equity, Health innovation |
| Topic | Consumer, Health services |
| Author | Research Australia |
| Format | 2 pages · PDF |