Resources
HL Hub seminar: How health literate are our health services? Measuring and making change to improve organisational health literacy (29 March 2022)
Watch the webinar: Health literate organisations make it easy for people to find, understand and apply health information so they can have better health and access to care. A health literacy self-assessment can be an important starting point for improving our services and ensuring that we are meeting the needs [...]
ABC RN The Health Report: For medical advice do you take action – or wait and see? Kirsten McCaffery (28 February 2022)
Listen to ABC Radio National's 'The Health Report' segment discussing our recent paper 'Preferences for more or less health care and association with health literacy of men eligible for prostate-specific antigen screening in Australia'.
Behavioural Insights Connect 2021: COVID-19 misinformation – Carissa Bonner (18 November 2021)
Watch the podcast from the second annual online series, hosted by the Behavioural Economics Team of the Australian Government (BETA).
Sydney Ideas: The case for vaccination – Kirsten McCaffery et al (18 August 2021)
Watch the Webinar: Vaccines offer a way out of COVID but its success is not without challenges. How do we overcome the gaps in understanding so that we’re backing the best chance we have in keeping ourselves and the community safe? Facilitated by ABC’s Tegan Taylor (co-host of Australia's chart-topping [...]
HL Hub seminar: COVID-19 Knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours in greater western Sydney (17 August 2021)
Watch the Webinar: Between March and July 2021, the Sydney Health Literacy Lab, WSLHD, SWSLHD and NBMLHD conducted a survey in 12 languages to understand people’s knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours regarding COVID-19 and to explore the impact of the pandemic on our culturally and linguistically diverse communities. In this seminar, [...]