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Home / News / Assessing Health Literacy and Health-Seeking Behaviour in Men – Challenges and Opportunities for Global Health Initiatives

Assessing Health Literacy and Health-Seeking Behaviour in Men – Challenges and Opportunities for Global Health Initiatives

January 27, 2020

Assessing Health Literacy and Health-Seeking Behaviour in Men – Challenges and Opportunities for Global Health Initiatives

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

11th February 2020

Scientific committee: Inês Fronteira (coordinator), Maria do Rosário Oliveira Martins, Karina Kielmann

Vennue: Room Cambournac, IHMT – UNL, Lisbon

Short description: Health literacy is the capacity of individuals to access, understand and use health information to improve their health status. It is both an individual and a social asset since communities with higher health literacy rates tend to have better health status, be economically more productive and socially more cohesive.  Health literacy is one component that is likely to drive health-seeking behaviour.  Globally, men tend to engage less with health services than women, are less likely to access preventive services, and are more likely to drop out of care. One reason for this is likely to be poorer levels of health literacy than in women, accounting for inequities both in terms of access, use and outcomes of health care. This is even more evident in resource-constrained countries with fragile health systems. The Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, the Institute of Global Health & Development at Queen Margaret University and the Mozambican Institute for Health Education and Research will bring together a group of national and international experts to discuss health literacy in the context of global health, with a specific focus on men in sub-Saharan Africa.

 

PROGRAM
14:30 – 15:00| Global health and health literacy: making the case – Inês Fronteira
15:00 – 15:30| The Portuguese experience on Health Literacy – Miguel Telo de Arriaga
15:30 – 16:00| Countervailing narratives between men and health providers around men’s sexual health-seeking behaviours in Southern Malawi – Tim Shand
16:00 – 16:30| Scoping the evidences on Men’s Health Literacy and Health Seeking: A Case for Differentiated Care for HIV and CVD (provisional title) – Thierry Beia (via VC)
16:30 – 17:00| Addressing Gaps in Men’s Health Literacy and Health Seeking in Mozambique: A Case for Differentiated Care for HIV and CVD – Karina Kielmann
17:00 – 17:15| Comments – Constantino Sakellarides
17:15 – 18:00| Discussion – Tiago Correia
Participation is free but prior registration is necessary: registration form. 

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GHTM is a R&D Unit that brings together researchers with a track record in Tropical Medicine and International & Global Health. It aims at strengthening Portugal's role as a leading partner in the development and implementation of a global health research agenda. Our evidence-based interventions contribute to the promotion of equity in health and to improve the health of populations.

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