20. Education and Training Investment Healthcare professionals are vital to maintaining the health and wellbeing of women and their families. Efforts must be made to sufficiently invest and improve healthcare professional education and training. Exchange of best practice across Europe should be encouraged to ensure that all healthcare professionals are receiving the best and most up-to-date training and education.
21. Sex and Gender Integration into Education and Training Healthcare professionals must be taught the importance of sex and gender differences in the prevention, development, diagnosis and treatment of various conditions during their education and training. Sex and gender considerations should be integrated into training and curricula. Healthcare professionals should receive further education through efforts, such as symposiums and professional conferences on sex and gender issues.
22. Healthcare Professional Sex and Gender Policies Healthcare professional play a vital role in treating, advising, caring, educating and training. Professional bodies should adopt explicit policies that encourage the integration of sex and gender and age factors into education and training. There must be a commitment to mainstream an evidence-based sex and gender perspective throughout all the healthcare professional curriculum and continuous education.
23. European Sex and Gender Health Education Coalition A European coalition for the integration of sex and gender into healthcare professional education and training could be established including the representation of the diverse healthcare professionals. The multi-disciplinary and multi-sectorial coalition could set and drive the agenda within and across European Member States. The coalition could work to inform students and educators on the importance of integrating sex and gender into healthcare professional education. The coalition could exchange best practice across Member States to best incorporate sex and gender into education at institutional, local and national levels and include the most recent evidence base in practice in order to improve patient outcomes.
24. Health Literacy Information Accessible and accurate health information in people’s respective language is a vital tool for both patients and healthcare providers. To empower patients, caregivers and their families this information must be easy to understand and in their respective language. People who are health literate have lower mortality rates, are less likely to use healthcare services (shorter stays, fewer visits), engage in safer use of medicine and better manage their conditions than are those with low health literacy levels.viii,ix,x Accessible, free multilingual health literacy information for patients, caregivers, families and citizens must be developed and supported.
25. Sex, Gender and Age Health Literacy Information on sex and gender as well as age differences in health and wellbeing should be funded and generated. These materials should be accessible, inclusive, peer-reviewed documents. Materials—such as policy briefings, background documents, reports and other publications—should explain the importance of integrating sex and gender into health using the most recent evidence base. These documents should be written in clear and basic language to ensure accessibility as well as diffusion.
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