CPME Rapporteur: Dr Katrín FJELDSTED (IS)
CPME Secretariat: Mr Markus KUJAWA

Health literacy is a rather new but important concept, which fosters access to health and puts citizens and patients at the centre of health and healthcare.

CPME is a member of the Health Literacy Coalition which contributes to the discussion on health literacy in Europe.

Publications endorsed by CPME:

• Health Literacy Coalition Article: ”Nothing about me without me: why an EU health literacy strategy embracing the role of citizens and patients is needed”, 2019
• Health Literacy Infographic, 2016
• CPME Study: Doctors’ and Older Patients’ Health Literacy of Functional Decline and Frailty (Results from Latvia and Romania), 2015
• Making health literacy a priority in EU policy, 2013