A projekt részletes leírása
INHEAL: Innovation in Health Literacy project
The INHEAL: Innovation in Health Literacy is a project co-financed by the Governments of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia through Visegrad Grants from the International Visegrad Fund – a donor organization established in 2000 to advance ideas for sustainable regional cooperation in Central Europe.
What is Visegrad Fund and what is Visegrad cooperation about? :
INHEAL´s main objective
While innovative methods and tools that could strengthen and improve health literacy exist, the region is found to be in need of policies aimed at this objective.
INHEAL’s objective is to bridge this gap by selecting and gathering promising and successful instruments and practices existing in the V4 countries and spreading their use. Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia share a common historical and administrative heritage, with many similarities in their current economic conditions and organization, including the healthcare system, as well as a comparable, steadily increasing aging population resulting from the events of the past 25 years, which have irreversibly ‘catapulted’ many post-communist countries into a very high level in terms of the share of seniors to the total population.
Taking into consideration the insufficient levels of health literacy among Europeans and especially EU’s older citizens, as well as the phenomenon’s disadvantageous impact on their health and the countries’ healthcare systems, INHEAL aims to inform and educate the elderly population from the Visegrad Group countries and beyond about the existence of innovative services that make it more accessible and effective for them to take charge of their health. More precisely, the project aims to educate older adults in interpreting medical prescriptions, doctors’ recommendations, sensible consumption of healthcare services, and determinant health-related knowledge.
INHEAL consortium is composed of partners chosen for their expertise in the fields of health literacy, public health, and senior education, as well as experience in related projects and their constant motivation to improve quality of life (QOL) among the elderly.
How can we achieve this objective?
INHEAL intends to provide direct training to the targeted group on how to benefit from this knowledge and services through the intermediary of caregivers. The latter shall be equipped with tools and know-how destined to enhance health-preserving skills.
By doing so, the project plans to produce in-depth national analyses and thereupon, a common health-improving methodology to organize national caregivers' training as well as to develop an online platform (this one itself). To this end, our partners hope to target the sensible consumption of healthcare services, maintenance of healthy lifestyles, informed administration of medications, and hands-on instruction on the use of innovative, ICT-based means of accessing health information and services (e-health, m-health, e-receipts, etc.).
