The Electronic Health Literacy Web Platform

The eHL Web Platform aims to assess and enhance eHL skills among medical and allied health students using a structured approach within the eHL Framework.

The eHL Web Platform a dynamic educational resource designed to expand users’ knowledge of eHL and guide them in applying self-developed strategies for electronic health literacy improvement.

By applying validated assessment tools for eHL, imposter syndrome, source credibility, and self-efficacy, the eHL Web Platform will improve eHL at multiple levels:

  • Individual: Enhancing the ability to process health information and actively engage in personal health care;
  • Organizational: Creating environments that empower users, ensuring they feel safe, in control, and motivated to engage with electronic health services;
  • Community (social): Facilitating access to reliable and user-friendly electronic health services that cater to individual needs.

The specific objectives of the eHL Web Platform are:

  • eHL education
    • Offering the necessary resources for enhancing and promoting knowledge about eHL for medical and allied health students;
    • Providing relevant information regarding eHL benefits and barriers;
    • Offering up-to-date and evidence-based interventions and strategies for increasing eHL;
    • Providing additional resources for increasing knowledge related to eHL, as the laws, normatives, and regulations regarding the eHL information, community hubs in the partner countries, relevant books and games to test the eHL level.
  • eHL enhancement
    • Providing relevant self-assessment instruments for eHL skills improvement;
    • Identifying the predictor factors of eHL for the medical and allied health fields which means to correlate the self-assessment eHL instruments with the socio-demographic and cultural characteristics of the users.
  • eHL research
    • Providing relevant information about the partner countries regarding their eHL levels;
    • Identifying the medical and allied health profile of the users interested in eHL in each partner country.