The project IDEAHL – IMPROVING DIGITAL EMPOWERMENT FOR ACTIVE HEALTHY LIVING funded by HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions (https://all-digital.org/projects/ideahl/) is a 3-year project that aims at developing and testing new models and approaches of (digital) health literacy intervention development and application through the co-creation of a comprehensive and inclusive EU (d)HL Strategy.
The IDEAHL consortium is composed of 14 multi-disciplinary partners from 10 EU Member States, which work hand in hand with patients, citizens, and the broad socio-economic sector at local level.
IDEAHL project will empower EU citizens to use digital tools to take on a more active role in the management of their health and wellbeing. Precisely, the project will map health literacy and digital health literacy research, initiatives and projects in the EU and beyond to improve (d)HL for the benefit of all citizens focusing on health promotion, disease prevention, treatment and (self)-care as well as on monitoring its impact on the wellbeing, productivity and the economy. It will pay special attention to social innovation, inclusion, gender, and ethics & privacy dimensions.
The project will first conduct an extensive mapping of health literacy (HL) and (d)HL research, initiatives, and projects in the EU and beyond. It will define best practices and champions in these fields to foster knowledge exchange and uptake of selected practices.
Building on these foundations, IDEAHL will launch a large co-creation process to design and plan its EU (d)HL Strategy. The project will involve over 1,300 stakeholders, from citizens and patients to healthcare and social services, policymakers, non-health sectors, academia, etc.
The collected feedback will allow to develop an inclusive Strategy to improve (d)HL for the benefit of all citizens focusing on health promotion, disease prevention, treatment and (self-)care as well as on monitoring its impact on the wellbeing, productivity and the economy. The Strategy will pay special attention to social innovation, inclusion, gender, and ethics & privacy dimensions.
Finally, a number of actions of the Strategy will be piloted in the 10 project countries. From the testing and evaluation of the pilots, IDEAHL will be able to put forward a common EU monitoring model and indicators for (d)HL levels.
This research relates to the following sustainable development goals:
Goal 3: Good health and wellbeing
Goal 5: Gender equality
Goal 10: Reduced inequalities