Digital Health Literacy & Public Health: back to the basics!

Mission and objectives

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This tutorial aims to contribute to place the foundation towards sustainability facing the multiple challenges that digitization has enacted in health! To help bridge the two sides of the Public Health question (the experts and the public) we will use HEalthy LIfestyles & HEalth LIteracy as a tracer methodology. Therefore, these two arguments will question the development of Digital Public Health, the knowledge translation needed towards sustainability and the public engagement. The participants will be equipped with the latest knowledge on health literacy/digital health literacy and healthy lifestyles, become part of a global community of health promoters, or be partners in research and innovative interventions that promote sustainability, wellness and quality of life. Inserted in the prospective program of the HeliCA PhD program this tutorial is presented as the “HeliCA Chair Academy Barcelona Summit (HeLiCA B)”, and aims to be an open platform to convene not only already registered HeLiCA PhD participants but also those interested in these topics from academia, policy making, health services research & implementation or industry.

Topics and themes

Health and Human Rights: The node of decisional algorithms of today’s public health AI generated outputs & health literacy imprint Healthy lifestyle or healthy lifestyles? From homeostasis to heterostasis (the quest for Equilibrium).

First, this tutorial session, will establish the entry point of health as a human right. Secondly will proceed with a cutting analysis of how today decisional algorithms are shaping the knowledge creation in public health leaving no room (or a very small breach ) into the validation processes of public health best practises and citizens wellbeing. Finally, one study case will deconstruct the formation of health literacy in the quest for Equilibrium.

From the public health perspective, the aim of this tutorial is to share with the audience an opportunity to immerse in different social contexts and explore their HL practices as tracer approaches.

This tutorial offers a forum for researchers, practitioners and policy-makers interested in health promotion pillars (e.g. like health literacy). By dialogue and two-way communication, lively interaction and vivid discussions will be facilitated. This will allow discussing results regarding their benefit for improving policy research, practice, and policy-making, support further synergies, facilitate networking and collaboration, and support international capacity building.

Intended Audience and Expected Participants

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This tutorial offers a forum for researchers, practitioners and policymakers interested in health promotion pillars (e.g. like health literacy). By dialogue and two-way communication, lively interaction and vivid discussions will be facilitated. This will allow discussing results regarding their benefit for improving policy research, practice, and policy-making, support further synergies, facilitate networking and collaboration, and support international capacity building.

Format and schedule (provisional)

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The tutorial is planned in a combined panel discussion and atelier format, designed to actively engage and empower participants.

Provisional agenda:

Speakers

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