Ebm@school – a curriculum of critical health literacy for secondary school students

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Format: Lessons
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Language/s: English
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Short Description:

A curriculum based on the concept of evidence-based medicine, which consists of six modules.

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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