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Adult learning and education as a tool to contain pandemics: The COVID-19
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In combating pandemics, more can be gained by changing citizens' behaviours than
by relying solely on the medical route. In the current COVID-19 pandemic, the
struggle to contain the outbreak and push back new infection figures will
ultimately be won by training citizens how to avoid creating secondary
transmission chains. The COVID-19 pandemic highlights the relationship between
individual behaviour and group risk. Mass training of all social strata of a
country's entire population is therefore critical in mitigating the pandemic. The
authors of this article argue that adult learning and education (ALE) can play a
pivotal role particularly in countries where average literacy levels are low, as
these are usually the same countries in which healthcare systems are more
fragile. This article explains why ALE, especially the promotion of health
literacy as part of ALE (which is itself part of lifelong learning), is necessary
to enable individuals to make informed health-related decisions. Research has
shown that low- or non-literate individuals are less responsive to health
education, less likely to use disease prevention services, and less likely to
successfully manage chronic disease than literate citizens. The authors refer to
the evaluation of the health literacy aspect of a large-scale adult literacy
campaign launched in South Africa in 2008 which has yielded measurable outcomes
and proved that the intervention had enabled adults to better understand health
messages. They stress the importance of populations having at least a basic level
of literacy and numeracy skills to enable them to receive and act on vital
information during a pandemic or disaster. They argue that ALE should in fact be
understood as an inherent element of every national emergency strategy, both in
terms of prior preparation for possible future emergencies (such as pandemics,
earthquakes, tornados, flooding, bushfires etc.), and in terms of reaction to a
given emergency such as the current COVID-19 pandemic.