Assignment brief.
There is evidence that a person’s characteristics and behaviours as well as social
determinants of health can impact upon their health and well-being. Health literacy
can be improved through educative and health promotion strategies. These
strategies can improve patients’ knowledge, understanding and engagement with the
health care system. In keeping with this principle, the Nursing and Midwifery Board of
Australia’s registered nurse standards for practice (2016) requires that the nurse or
midwife “provide the information and education required to enhance people’s control
over health”.

Discuss a health promotion activity, strategy or program of your choice that aims to
improve patients’ health literacy (e.g. Ask-me-3 and The Water Well Project). The
activity, strategy or program (the intervention) can be designed for implementation by
an individual health care worker or a whole department, hospital, organisation or
health care network. Remember to relate your content to published evidence in
the scholarly literature throughout.