New tool to strengthen the evaluation of organisational health literacy
How can we get better at evaluating what actually works when organisations seek to strengthen health literacy?
We have explored this question together with colleagues from Denmark and Belgium. The result has now been published in BMC Public Health in a new article on OHL-COD (Organizational Health Literacy Core Outcome Domains).
15 core domains provide a common foundation
OHL-COD identifies 15 core domains that can be used as a common foundation for evaluating interventions aimed at strengthening organisational health literacy.
The tool can help establish a common language for what is measured when evaluating organisational health literacy. At the same time, it can provide better opportunities to compare results across different interventions and contexts.
This is an important step towards generating more systematic knowledge about how organisations can strengthen their ability to respond to people’s different capacities to access, understand and use health information.
From good intentions to systematic knowledge
Work on organisational health literacy is not only about developing new interventions. It is also essential to be able to examine whether interventions work, and in which areas.
With OHL-COD, researchers and practitioners have a common starting point for this work. In the longer term, this can strengthen both the evaluation and development of interventions aimed at making organisations more health literate and, in turn, better able to support health and health equity.
Read the article here: “Developing core outcome domains (OHL-COD) for evaluating organizational health literacy responsiveness interventions”
Link: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12889-026-28805-z