Global Digital Health Partnership: Digital health literacy toolkit

Summary

Digital health literacy comprises the ability to find, understand, and apply health information, and to manage one’s own health by using electronic tools and information sources. Digital health literacy is a foundational element of successful healthcare transformation and increasingly important to patients, caregivers, and the public.

This toolkit compiles international learnings and practices to support the advancement of public digital health literacy. Developed by the Clinical and Human Engagement work stream of the Global Digital Health Partnership (GDHP), it is intended for anyone seeking to:

• Develop or procure resources to build digital health literacy skills among the general public.
• Contextualise their existing digital health literacy work within the international landscape.
• Understand the evolving definitions, impacts, and implications of digital health literacy.

Content

This toolkit draws together ‘learnings and practices to support the advancement of public digital health literacy’. The toolkit consists of 5 modules:

• Module 1: Introduction
• Module 2: GDHP digital health literacy survey findings
• Module 3: Case examples
• Module 4: Checklists and considerations
• Module 5: Collection of digital health literacy resources.