The purpose of interviews with TAFE teachers as part of the Australian Health Literacy study was to:Group of answer choicesExplore TAFE teachers’ perceptions of the impact of health content on students enrolled in basic literacy and numeracy classesTest the health knowledge of TAFE teachers teaching basic literacy and numeracy classesDetermine whether the TAFE teachers had delivered the health content to students enrolled in basic literacy and numeracy classes.Measure the impact of health content on students enrolled in basic literacy and numeracy classes.

In order to incorporate the health content into the basic literacy and numeracy courses, TAFE teachers:Group of answer choicesWorked with a community health workerHad to create the health content themselvesWorked with an academic researcherLiaised with students' General Practitioners

One model of health literacy used by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care depicts two components impacting health literacy. These two components are:Group of answer choicesNational health literacy and the Education SystemNational health literacy and the Health literacy environmentIndividual health literacy and the Health literacy environmentIndividual health literacy and the Education System

Concerns about teachers’ expertise and confidence in delivering health content have been a barrier to incorporating these into basic literacy and numeracy programs for adult learners?Group of answer choicesTrueFalseNext

The rationale for incorporating health related content into a standard literacy and numeracy program was:Group of answer choicesthat having a health worker present would improve the health of the studentsthat improving health knowledge would increase students employment prospectsthat increasing shared decision-making skills would increase literacy skillsthat health related content would increase engagement in learning PreviousNext

The Australian Health Literacy Training Program included two components. These were:Group of answer choicesHealth content incorporated into basic adult literacy and numeracy training; and a shared decision-making training moduleHealth content incorporated into basic adult literacy and numeracy training; and a patient self-efficacy training moduleHealth content tailored to the individual student’s health needs; and a shared decision-making training moduleHealth content incorporated into basic adult literacy and numeracy training; and a health literacy knowledge module