“Learning” of individuals and teams will play a crucial role as we roll out mHealth solutions. Therefore, it is necessary to develop sets of skills, knowledge, and attitudes that are needed to contribute. Knowledge areas range from medical, organisational, ICT, standards, to user experience, legal and regulatory issues. Groups of users have reached very diverse stages in this complex landscape. Supporting measures have to reflect the additional knowledge needed and provide efficient ways to extend it.

For the population, health literal individuals, according to the WHO, “participate more actively in economic prosperity, have higher earnings and rates of employment, are more educated and informed, contribute more to community activities, and enjoy better health and well-being”. Higher health literacy is linked with increased participation in health-promotion and disease detection activities and can help to combat existing inequalities.

current HFE paper:  “Reforming and investing in the health workers’ education and core competences is critical to deliver a high quality of care and sustainability of European health care systems. Only by working together, European policymakers and EU countries can develop a common profile for the health care worker of the future, equipped with the necessary skills to transform health care for better patient and workforce outcomes”.

“The State of the Health in the EU and its companion report highlight the importance of promoting reforms aimed at tackling critical health workforce issues such as supply, distribution and a traditional skill mix, to strengthen prevention, primary care and integrated service delivery.

The European Commission encourages EU-wide activities in health workforce planning and forecasting, to support EU countries in applying theory to practice in building national capacities”. See EC webpage