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HPH and Health Literate Health Care Organizations (HPH & HLO)
WG Leader: Christina Wieczorek, Austria
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Terms of Reference:
1. Adaptation to and translation of tools and indicators for different health care contexts based upon the “Vienna Concept of a Health Literate Health Care Organization (V-HLO)” and recent developments for monitoring, benchmarking and improving organizational HL in health care;
2. Giving examples on best evidence practices of HLO related to HPH models and tools (evidence, staff competences and patient preferences)
3. Disseminate best practice examples of HLO and HPH models and tools through the International HPH Network
4. Support the increase of health professionals’ competence on health literate health care;
5. Establishing a database for health literate hospitals and health services programs.
Participants of the working group
(in alphabetical order)
| Name | Organization | Country |
| Pietro DEL GIUDICE | University of Udine | Italy |
| Christina DIETSCHER | Austrian Ministry of Health and Women's Affairs | Austria |
| Sally FAWKES | HPH Network Australia, La Trobe University | Australia |
| Kjersti FLØTTEN | HPH Network Norway | Norway |
| Oana GRÖNE | Gesundheit für Billstedt/Horn UG | Germany |
| Jörg HASLBECK | Careum Research | Switzerland |
| Gilles HENRARD | Département de Médicine Générale de l'Ulg | Belgium |
| Maureen JOHNSON | Barwon Health |
Australia |
| Kai KOLPATZIK | AOK Bundesverband | Germany |
| Diane LEVIN-ZAMIR | Department of Health Education and Promotion, Clalit Health Services | Israel |
| Jack Jin-Ding LIN | Spring Sunshine Center for Intellectual Development; School of Public Health, National Defense Medical Center; Board of Directors, Taiwan HPH Network | Taiwan |
| Peter NOWAK | Vice-director, WHO-CC-HPH at Gesundheit Österreich GmbH (Austrian Public Health Insititute) | Austria |
| Jürgen M. PELIKAN | Director, WHO-CC-HPH at Gesundheit Österreich GmbH (Austrian Public Health Insititute) | Austria |
| Yuki SEIDLER | Medical University of Vienna | Austria |
| Ragnhild STORSTEIN SPILKER | NAKMI (Oslo University Hospital) | Norway |
| Ying-Wei WANG | Director-General, Health Promotion Administration, Ministry of Health and Welfare Taiwan | Taiwan |
| Christina C. WIECZOREK | WHO-CC-HPH at Gesundheit Österreich GmbH (Austrian Public Health Insititute) | Austria |
 Proposal_WorkingGroupHPH-HLO_FINAL.pdf | [Please click here to view the proposal of the working group which has been approved by the HPH Governance Board in December 2016] | 532 kB |