Interdisciplinary Centre for Health Literacy Research
Cooperations
The Interdisciplinary Centre for Health Literacy Research serves as the basis for an interdisciplinary network of research on health literacy and strengthens cooperation between the Faculties of Education and Health Sciences at Bielefeld University. In general, the ICHL has set itself the goal of becoming involved in both basic and applied research, of becoming a hub of the national health literacy debate in the long term, and of exploring further formats of interdisciplinary cooperation across universities and between universities.
In order to achieve this defined goal, existing collaborations and working groups were intensified, new collaborations were developed and networks and organisations were formed.
- Partnerschaften
The Nationaler Aktionsplan Gesundheitskompetenz (NAP) is a central partner of the ICHL. The office of the NAP, which is located at the Hertie School, is the central contact point for all those who deal with the topic of health literacy: Actors and organisations from science and research, from politics and practice, from the health care system and self-help.
The ICHL and the NAP work closely together, especially in the following areas:
- To identify existing studies and health literacy projects nationwide, to collect and process data and knowledge and to stimulate further research.
- To network activities and actors with each other and to enable them to exchange experiences. Such cooperation will make it easier to bundle and coordinate existing activities and then, in a next step, to promote health literacy in a coordinated and multidisciplinary way.
- Memberships
- Members of the ICHL in the German Alliance Health Competence of the Federal Ministry of Health
- German representation in the European Research Network of the World Health Organization (WHO) Europe: Measuring Population and Organizational Health Literacy in Europe (M-POHL)
- German representation on the Advisory Board of WHO Europe on the development of a European action plan for health literacy
- Member of the Executive Committee of the Global Working Group on Health Literacy bei der IUHPE
- Networks and Organizations
- International Health Literacy Association (IHLA)
- Representing the Centre on the Health Literacy Policy and Advocacy Board and other committees of IHLA
- Stakeholder group on health literacy in education at the International Health Literacy Association (IHLA)
- Global Health Literacy Academy
- Health Literacy Europe
- Asian Health Literacy Association (AHLA)
- Working Groups
- Global Working Group on Health Literacy – International Union for Health Promotion and Education
- Internationalen Working Group on Health Literacy, Life-Skills and Social Inclusion beim International School Health Network (with the participation of the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE); Organisation for Co-Operation and Development (OECD), World Bank u.w.)
- Membership of the WHO- and EU-funded School for Health in Europe Foundation (SHE Europe) on the topic of health literacy in schools.
- WHO Action Network and Working Group on Health Literacy of Children and in Schools with the aim of developing an action plan on the topic (WHO European Office, Child and Adolescent Health Departments of the Division of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and promoting health through the life-cours