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Koruyucu Sağlık Hizmetlerinde Toplumsal Katılım ve Sağlık Okuryazarlığının Arttırılması
Start date: Dec 31, 2015, End date: Dec 30, 2016 PROJECT  FINISHED 

Our Community Health Center is mainly responsible for conducting preventive health services to maintain and improve public health. The quality and success in preventive health services improves with the participation of society. Therefore it is important to increase health literacy and ensure the community's active participation. 64,6 % of Turkish adult population has an inadequate health literacy. Thus, the desired level of success could not be obtained at our community health center. Health 2020: Within the context of European Health policy; European Union emphasizes improvements in protective health care services and supports the activities intended for attendance of community and improvement of health literacy. One of the most important duties of our institution which supports the protective health services is public health educations for attendance of community and to improve health literacy. Our institution is performing health educations for many years. But desired results could not be achieved and this is also the case at the national level. Our institution which has responsibility to develop and implement programs in order to improve attendance of community and improve health literacy. carries on operations from management to implementations. For this reason applied for this project. Project aims, -Provide a special unit for adult educations in organisational structure -In order to improve health literacy increase the collaboration between stake holder institutions for adult education activities -Formulation of a real education policy to improve health literacy -To give creativity and diversity to education and awareness programs -To improve capability of adult education staff in the communication, teaching , language ability and the use of information technology. The aim of our project is to increase health the standard of knowledge, improve the attendance of community; finally to increase the success rate of preventive health care services. The managers and the adult education staff who have responsibilities from planning to implementation are the project participants. 10 doctors at the management level and 17 health care staff who have responsibilities for adult education are designated as participants. The project management has been implemented to plan and to carry on the project with our most benefit. Management and Coordination Unit, Support Services and Finance Unit, and Educational Services and Staff Unit has been established with the adequate representations from each consortium member organisation. Our consortium will perform 2 weeks mobility activity in Netherlands and the UK in between October 2015 - April 2015. Mobility activity has been planned as classroom and on the job training. Training activities are planned to include the information sharing about health education institutions for adults, these institutions’ general organizations and specific structures for education services,qualifications, legislation, inter-agency cooperation, sharing of roles and responsibilities. Our aim is to have information about adult educational organisations, educational technics and methodology, effective presentation techniques and skills, educational material, preparation and effective use of educational equipments during mobility activity. On the job trainings will be performed by the related governmental organizations or private sector, associations and non-governmental organisations. The succes rate of preventive healthcare services are higher than more expensive medical treatments, and the implementation is much more easier. Adult health educational services will increase attendance of community and improve preventive health care services. In long term our project will provide uncalculable positive effect on family, community and public. The result of mobility program will provide correctly structured adult education management and organisation improved adult health education quality which will lead increased success rate in our preventive health care services in our organisations.

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