Open AccessWhy you should Mini-Med School: Mini-Med School as an intervention to increase health literacy
Author(s) -
Sergiy Shatenko,
Samuel Harder,
Jane Gair
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
canadian medical education journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1923-1202
DOI - 10.36834/cmej.67817
Subject(s) - health literacy , outreach , context (archaeology) , medicine , intervention (counseling) , literacy , health care , family medicine , medical education , nursing , gerontology , psychology , pedagogy , political science , paleontology , law , biology
Health literacy is an increasingly important topic in healthcare given that low health literacy is widely prevalent and linked to poorer health outcomes and higher healthcare costs. We sought to determine if a Mini-Med School delivered by medical students could prove to be an effective intervention to improve health literacy in the elderly.