Resources
To equip you with the skills to have health promoting conversations with your clients and their visitors, we have sourced a range of useful resources:
Making it Easy, the National Health Literacy Action Plan for Scotland, 2014, highlights the hidden problem of low health literacy and the impact that this has on our ability to access, understand, engage and participate in our health and social care.
Teach-back is an easy-to-use technique to check that the health professional has clearly explained information to the patient and that the patient has understood what they have been told. NHSScotland has developed a Teach Back technique postcard and copies are available from knowledge@nes.scot.nhs.uk
There is also a video from the Scottish Health Council giving practical tips on how to use Teach Back.
Promoting health through conversations
Refer to our guide on how to have health promoting conversations with your patients.