Please find the first newsletter of the IMPACCT project attached. Do you want to know about our latest activities and plans for the future? Click on the link and download our newsletter http://healthliteracycentre.eu/1st-impacct-newsletter/.

The main objective of IMPACCT (IMproving PAtient-centered Communication Competences) is “to improve the relevance and quality of education of medical and nursing students in Europe through the development, implementation, evaluation and dissemination of an evidence-based Health Literacy Educational Program. The educational program will consist of a set of about 20 learning units. Taken together, these units reflect the fact that a comprehensive approach is needed to tackle health literacy problems. To enhance the health and well-being of people with low health literacy, students need a wide range of health literacy competences related to clinical competences (e.g. diagnosing among people with low health literacy), but also competences for communication, collaboration, leadership or quality assurance, to prevent health literacy related problems. Watch the short video below to get a well rounded impression of the project.

Learn more about the IMPACCT project our colleagues  Andrea Madarasova Geckova, Ivana Skoumalova and Peter Kolarcik are involved in at http://healthliteracycentre.eu/impacct/ or check out the leaflet below and join the newsletter here!

From 21 till 25 August 2018, our colleagues Zuzana Dankulincova, Miriama Lackova Rebicova, Jaroslava Mackova,  Laura Urbanova and Peter Kolarcik met with other prominent researchers in the field of health psychology on the 32nd annual conference of European Health Psychology Society in Galway, Ireland. They were invited to share their knowledge via five poster presentations on latest findings from Care4Youth, HBSC and Health literacy studies.

Pilot project “Health Assistants in the Hospitals Environment” has succesfully completed its first months of running in hospitals of Trebisov and Michalovce. More information with positive feedback from all involved here, here and here.

Our colleagues Daniela Filakovska and Andrej Belak participated in Working Group set for this pilot project and were on the beginning of this unique cooperation with hospitals.

The activity is implemented within the framework of the Healthy Community National Project 2A – under the title “Health Assistants in the Hospitals Environment”.

International Journal of Public Health editorial board was attended by our colleagues prof. Andrea Madarasová Gecková as editor-in-chief and dr. Jana Holubčíková as associate editor in August in Cali in Colombia.