Public health literacy

Public health literacy is a measure of how well can use information about health to improve lives in their community.

We are improving our health literacy by working to better understand:

• our neighbourhoods and the people that live there
• the issues and inequalities that they face

Community champions

Our community champions scheme helps us to improve health literacy by:

• speaking to residents about the health challenges they face
• finding out more information about people's key priorities for improving their health
• sharing information with people where they live

For more information about the scheme see our page about:

• our community champions scheme

Training

We also want to improve the public health literacy of people who:

• live
• work
• study in the city

To do this we offer training for:

• individuals
• community organisations
• businesses
• care providers

For more details about the training available see our:

• Newcastle public health training brochure

More information

For more information that may help improve your health literacy see our page on:  

• Healthy Cities
• Better health at work