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Ebm@school – a curriculum of critical health literacy for secondary school students
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A curriculum based on the concept of evidence-based medicine, which consists of six modules.
Key Concepts addressed:- Cartoons
- Audio
- čeština
- Choices: making informed choices
- Comparisons: are they fair and reliable?
- English
- Euskara
- français
- Gaeilge
- Greek
- Hrvatski
- italiano
- 1-6 Expert opinion is not always right
- 1-5 Newer is not necessarily better
- 1-9 Earlier is not necessarily better
- 1-11 Explanations about how treatments work can be wrong
Details
Increasingly, patients and consumers are taking responsibility for their diagnostic and therapeutic decisions. This requires a certain amount of health literacy in order to critically assess the various procedures and products. The aim of this study was to develop and pilot test a curriculum of critical health literacy for secondary school students.
Evaluation details
The results of a formal evaluation of the curriculum is available here:
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00038-008-7033-1