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AOK Fact Boxes: Clear and understandable information

AOK Fact Boxes: clear and comprehensible information

What are AOK fact boxes?
The AOK fact boxes clearly contrast benefits and risks, damage and side effects with graphics and understandable texts. In this way, complex science is prepared in such a way that even non-specialists can understand the information well. When patients are well informed, they can make better decisions about their health.

AOK Fact Boxes: what are they?
The AOK Fact Boxes explain complex medical issues in an understandable way. They compare their benefits and risks. AOK Fact Boxes allow people to make informed decisions about their health. The medical issues presented in the box of vaccination against flu to dietary supplements and shock wave therapy.

AOK Fact Boxes

Ovarian cancer screening
What are the benefits of having an ultrasound on screen for ovarian cancer??

Vaccination influenza
Vaccination against flu for people aged 60 and older Should I get myself vaccinated every year?

Dietary supplements: Vitamin D
Can I protect myself against bone fractures with vitamin D?

Dietary supplements: Vitamin D
Can I prevent cancer or cardiovascular diseases with vitamin D?

Dietary supplements: Selenium
Can I protect myself against cardiovascular disease with selenium?

Dietary supplements: Selenium
Can I protect myself against cancer with selenium?

X-rays
Should I get X-ray of my back if I have back pain?

Shock wave therapy
How effective is shock wave treatment to relieve elbow pain?

When patients are well informed, they can make better decisions about their health. However, a large representative study by the Scientific Institute of the AOK (WIdO) showed that the health literacy among six out of ten Germans is problematic or inadequate. With the newly developed fact boxes the AOK-Bundesverband starts here. Complex science is prepared in such a way that even non-specialists understand the information well. Graphics and comprehensible texts present benefits, risks, damages and side effects clearly arranged. Vaccinations, nutritional supplements and IGel services are as much a topic as investigations and medicines. As an additional service, AOK services are explained. New are the fact boxes for additional intake of vitamin C and vitamin E..

The AOK Federal Association develops the fact boxes together with Prof. Dr. med. Gerd Gigerenzer. As director of the Harding Center for Risk Competency at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, he is an expert in communicating evidence-based knowledge in an understandable way. The scientific development of the topics is the responsibility of Prof. Dr. med. Attila Altiner, Director of the Institute of General Medicine, University of Rostock.

AOK facts box on vaccination against measles, mumps, rubella

When patients are well informed, they can make better decisions about their health. This is where the AOK fact boxes come in. Together with the Max Planck Institute for Educational Research in Berlin, the AOK Federal Association has prepared complex science in such a way that even non-specialists understand the information well. To enable insured persons to make their decision for or against vaccination on the basis of proven facts.

Even before the publication, the Harding Center evaluated the new information offer. The result: fact boxes provide measurable knowledge growth – more than just a conventional information brochure.

So informed, the patient can make better decisions for himself or go well informed in the conversation with the doctor – who in turn can use the boxes for themselves or as a basis for discussion. After the release of the first twelve boxes, the AOK-Bundesverband continues to expand the offer.

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