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The First Global Health Literacy Summit 2020, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
The first Global Health Literacy Summit is the first largest and most diverse global gathering on health literacy. Organized by the International Health Literacy Association and hosted by the E-DA Healthcare Group|I-Shou University, the first Global Health Literacy Summit will be held in Kaohsiung on October 26-28th, 2020. The summit will bring together over 500 people from 80 countries to network and share ideas on how to advance health literacy. The theme of the Summit is “Health Literacy for All” highlighting its importance for equity and sustainable development.
Goals of the Global Health Literacy Summit
The aim of the IHLA Global Health Literacy Summit is to unite people around the world working to promote health literacy in order to
- foster knowledge exchange between researchers, practitioners and policy makers regarding health literacy
- promote evidence-based actions and practices in the area of health literacy
- promote health literacy to reduce inequality in health.
Important Dates
- Deadline for abstract submission: 31 March 2020 23:59 (GMT+8)
- Deadline for early bird discount registration: 1 August 2020
- Deadline for online registration: 1 October 2020
Main themes
- Health literacy and health equity
- Librarians advancing health literacy
- Improving Health Literacy Using Information Technology
- Health literacy across the lifespan
- Child and Family Health Literacy
- Health literacy in adolescence
- Health literacy and older adults
- Health literacy and social costs
- Cancer health literacy
- Health literacy in professional training and performance (incl Medical / Health Professions Schools, Occupational therapy etc.)
- Health literacy and patient safety
- Environmental health literacy and climate change
- Health literacy and sustainability
- Health literacy in in market settings (consumers, etc.) market research
- Health literacy and clinical healthcare settings (incl primary care)
- Mental health literacy
- Health literacy policy and advocacy
- Health literacy in schools and educational settings
- Health literacy interventions and behavior change
- Nutrition health literacy
- Research and new measures for health literacy
- Organizational health literacy
- Health literacy and cultural appropriateness
- Digital and technological health literacy
- Health literacy and the media
- Health literacy and public health promotion
- Health literacy and NCDs
- Health literacy and sexual & reproductive health
- Other
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
- Abstracts should follow the appropriate type of presentation.
- Abstracts must be in the English language only.
- Abstract titles have a maximum of 20 words. Abstract titles should be in lower case, except the first word, abbreviations and countries. Do not use capital letters only and avoid using abbreviations or acronyms.
- The content of the abstracts should not include more than 350 words
- Abstracts should be written in Size 11 font, Arial font style.
- Abstracts may not contain photos, graphs or tables.
- Author and co-author: you can include up to 6 co-authors, including one presenting author. Special circumstances can be applied to [email protected] if more than 6 co-authors (maximum 8) is needed.
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