Seventy-five per cent of Australians who speak English as a second language have below adequate health literacy.
Health Literacy and Diversity Health Manager Fiorina Mastroianni said patients forget between forty and eighty per cent of information provided by medical professionals.
This has prompted the theme for this year’s Multicultural Health Week to be on clearer communication.
For this week’s talk, listen and ask for better health, an adult group of migrants were taken on a tour of a NSW hospital to learn what to do in the case of a medical emergency.