M-POHL - WHO Action Network on Measuring Population and Organizational Health Literacy (External organisation)

Description

The vision of M-POHL is to enhance health literacy in the WHO European Region by ensuring the availability of high-quality and internationally comparative data to support evidence-based political decisions and targeted practice interventions. As described in its Concept Note and the Vienna Statement on the measurement of population and organizational health literacy in Europe, M-POHL’s ambitious aims are to:
support health literacy by strengthening the collaboration between research and policy,
address the health literacy among general population and patients,
institutionalize regular, high-quality internationally comparative population health literacy surveys,
address health literacy-friendliness of systems and organizations,
support assessing organizational health literacy (health literacy-friendly structures and processes), and
foster evidence-based policy and practice.

Period	2024 → …
Held at	M-POHL - WHO Action Network on Measuring Population and Organizational Health Literacy, Austria
Degree of Recognition	International