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. 2017 Sep 25;17(4):8. doi: 10.5334/ijic.3295

Table 5.

Evidence-based integrated care policies to the development of (e)health literacy.


Examples:
  • Use of mass media campaigns on healthy lifestyles and certified health websites [71]

  • Targeted educational packages and life style programmes

  • Supported self-management (e.g. diabetes, obesity, cancer, asthma and heart failure) [72,73,74]

  • Personalised care planning [75]

  • Integrating and financing (nurse) educators, patient navigators [76,77], community health workers and case managers [78,79] in primary and secondary care practices and hospitals [80]

  • Patient expert programmes facilitated by lay volunteers

  • Community participation in planning and goal-setting (e.g. community consultations through committees and participatory groups) [81]

  • Patient and service user groups (e.g. in the development of patient charters)

  • Strategies that encourage lay, parental and family-led advice and support in local communities

  • Shared decision making between people and health care professionals [82,83,84]

  • Giving people access to personal health records [85]

  • (Financial) incentives related to mutually defined health goals [86]