Developing Health Literacy Skills in Children and Youth Proceedings of a Workshop (2020) / Chapter Skim
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6 Reflections on the Workshop
6 Reflections on the Workshop
Pages 75-82
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DISCUSSION Parnell asked Willis what common thread is necessary throughout all of the sectors to truly enhance health literacy among youth. Willis replied that the health professionals do not know the health education standards in schools well enough to reinforce them, and pediatricians do not always work closely with early childhood education and school systems to advocate for brain and cognitive development.
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Maternal and Child Health Bureau had a dual focus: school health, especially school health services, and comprehensive adolescent health from the perspective of public health, e specially health care services. My comments reflect this background.
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Kolbe, it is extraordinarily important that states and local school districts assure high-quality, comprehen sive health education for, and deliver it to, their students.d These efforts can be augmented and complemented by including other community stakeholders in these efforts. First -- and this comment is more of a vision than a construct or an action with an empirically studied methodology -- is that health care professionals, including pediatricians, family medicine physicians, and nurse practitioners, can reinforce and affirm health education messages provided within classroom settings.
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I appreciate the challenges around engaging youth discussed today, as well as identifying who the community is, who the community partners are, and maintain ing respectful and reciprocal relationships. In closing, education systems, medical systems, and health care providers that don't integrate cultural understandings and interests will fail to engage youth.
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The discussion today brought up several important components of this topic: • laces where health literacy skills can develop P • opulations and people with special health care needs, and lessons P learned from research and practice among them • artners and the roles they play, and partnerships that we need to have P which add broad complexity to this area However, one element that I want to make sure we pay attention to is the policy piece that has to thread across all of those components. We must recog nize that we have to advocate for those policy changes that prevent barriers to effectively implementing health literacy skills development for children and youth populations.
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This has the potential to result in a healthier adult society that lives on, so we can truly realize health equity. Since I work in the world of community-based participatory research and in the community, some of my concern is always focused on sustaining the health literacy programs.
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In that sense, health care providers can play an important role in guiding parents on how to engage their children in their illness, be it minor or chronic. She added that more thought should go toward developing frameworks that can specifically help health care providers know how to engage children every step of the way, starting in early childhood.
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