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SUMMARY:Digitally Healthy: Health Literacy and Health Inequalities
DESCRIPTION:******Fully booked up****** \nNHS NES Digital Service (NDS) and VHS are partnering to run this joint event exploring health inequalities in the context of the development of digital health. The event will provide the opportunity for voluntary health organisations to engage with NDS and to explore issues and approaches regarding digital health inequalities. The event is particularly relevant in light of COVID-19 driving more health and care services online. \nNow Fully Booked but you can join the wait list here. \nAims/objectives of the event: \n\nTo explore the ways in which digital health can widen health inequalities\nTo identify good digital health literacy interventions to mitigate health inequalities\nTo agree joint actions taking forward digital health literacy interventions discussed\n\nBackground: \nScotland’s health is improving\, but the gap in health outcomes between the most and least advantaged groups in society is widening. We call this gap health inequalities. Technology has the potential to reduce health inequalities by enabling people to access digital health information and tools to help them to better manage their health and care.  However\, left unchecked\, digital technologies could also widen health inequalities. \n\nHealth inequalities are the ‘systematic differences in the health of people occupying unequal positions in society’.\nThey are strongly associated with socio-economic inequalities but can also result from discrimination.\nHealth inequalities are unfair\, not inevitable\, and must be tackled.\n\nThere is a clear and strong relationship between groups that are digitally excluded and those at greater risk of poor health.  People from excluded groups or living in deprived areas often lack the skills\, ability and means to get online.  Helping them to access and use digital health services and tools can: \n\nimprove their health literacy & help them to better manage their health and care\noffer them a better choice and convenience of service that suits their day to day lives\nimprove our relationships and how we communicate with patients\nreduce the cost and burden on frontline services\n\nWorking in collaboration  \nBoth NDS and VHS have programmes of work to mitigate health inequalities. Together we recognise there is a need to engage and collaborate across sectors to help identify\, explore and address interventions which tackle health inequalities from a digital perspective. \n \nNES Digital Service (NDS) was established in 2018 to deliver the National Digital Platform\, a central part of Scotland’s Digital Health and Care Strategy. We have three objectives: \n\nto enable excellent care by making sure health and care practitioners can capture and access the specialist information they need to do their job;\nto provide tools and services which allow NHSScotland colleagues and third parties can build valuable products and services on shared national digital  infrastructure;\nto create the architecture to support key research agendas\, better decision making and service improvement.\n\nBook your place here. \nPlease contact Lauren Blair with any questions. Lauren.Blair@VHScotland.org.uk \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Digitally Healthy: Health Literacy and Health Inequalities
DESCRIPTION:******Fully booked up****** \nNHS NES Digital Service (NDS) and VHS are partnering to run this joint event exploring health inequalities in the context of the development of digital health. The event will provide the opportunity for voluntary health organisations to engage with NDS and to explore issues and approaches regarding digital health inequalities. The event is particularly relevant in light of COVID-19 driving more health and care services online. \nNow Fully Booked but you can join the wait list here. \nAims/objectives of the event: \n\nTo explore the ways in which digital health can widen health inequalities\nTo identify good digital health literacy interventions to mitigate health inequalities\nTo agree joint actions taking forward digital health literacy interventions discussed\n\nBackground: \nScotland’s health is improving\, but the gap in health outcomes between the most and least advantaged groups in society is widening. We call this gap health inequalities. Technology has the potential to reduce health inequalities by enabling people to access digital health information and tools to help them to better manage their health and care.  However\, left unchecked\, digital technologies could also widen health inequalities. \n\nHealth inequalities are the ‘systematic differences in the health of people occupying unequal positions in society’.\nThey are strongly associated with socio-economic inequalities but can also result from discrimination.\nHealth inequalities are unfair\, not inevitable\, and must be tackled.\n\nThere is a clear and strong relationship between groups that are digitally excluded and those at greater risk of poor health.  People from excluded groups or living in deprived areas often lack the skills\, ability and means to get online.  Helping them to access and use digital health services and tools can: \n\nimprove their health literacy & help them to better manage their health and care\noffer them a better choice and convenience of service that suits their day to day lives\nimprove our relationships and how we communicate with patients\nreduce the cost and burden on frontline services\n\nWorking in collaboration  \nBoth NDS and VHS have programmes of work to mitigate health inequalities. Together we recognise there is a need to engage and collaborate across sectors to help identify\, explore and address interventions which tackle health inequalities from a digital perspective. \n \nNES Digital Service (NDS) was established in 2018 to deliver the National Digital Platform\, a central part of Scotland’s Digital Health and Care Strategy. We have three objectives: \n\nto enable excellent care by making sure health and care practitioners can capture and access the specialist information they need to do their job;\nto provide tools and services which allow NHSScotland colleagues and third parties can build valuable products and services on shared national digital  infrastructure;\nto create the architecture to support key research agendas\, better decision making and service improvement.\n\nBook your place here. \nPlease contact Lauren Blair with any questions. Lauren.Blair@VHScotland.org.uk \n  \n 
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