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Multicultural Health Week 2019 – A Focus on New and Emerging Communities & The Winners and Finalists of the Multicultural Health Communication Awards 2019. MULTICULTURAL HEALTH WEEK 2019: A FOCUS ON NEW AND EMERGING COMMUNITIES Addressing the health needs of new and emerging communities is the key focus of Multicultural Health Week to ensure equitable access to health care and health information for these communities. In today’s launch event, NSW Health’s Chief Health Officer, Dr Kerry Chant stressed the importance of the 2019 Multicultural Week theme: Health Literacy of new and emerging communities. “Health literacy is recognised as a critical issue for health services. Health literacy refers to how people understand information about health and health care; how they apply that information to their lives; how they use it to make decisions and act on that information”, Dr Chant said. New and emerging communities are defined as communities ...

TALK, LISTEN AND ASK FOR BETTER HEALTH THIS MULTICULTURAL HEALTH WEEK This week is Multicultural Health Week 2018 (3 – 9 September) with the theme Health Literacy with the tagline ‘Talk, Act, Listen – for better health’. Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant launched Multicultural Health Week this morning at the Liverpool Hospital which was attended by close to 150 people. Health literacy is about how people understand information about health and health care and how they apply that information to their lives, use it to make decisions and act on it. The importance of health literacy is reflected in the National Safety and Quality Health Services Standards (second edition) www.nationalstandards.safetyandquality.gov.au / developed by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare. The aim of Multicultural Health Week this year is to raise the importance of health literacy for health workers when working with people from multicultural groups. This ...