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OECD Skills Outlook 2023

Skills for a Resilient Green and Digital Transition

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Skills are vital for building resilient economies and societies. By helping individuals develop a diverse range of skills and empowering them to apply these skills effectively, skills policies play a crucial role in responding to emerging threats, such as environmental degradation and harmful applications of technologies used to collect, generate, and exchange information. This edition of the Skills Outlook highlights the importance of supporting individuals in acquiring a wide range of skills, at varying levels of proficiency, to promote economic and social resilience. Additionally, the report acknowledges the role of attitudes and dispositions in enabling skills development and effective skills use. It also emphasises the need for policy makers to monitor the costs associated with policies aimed at promoting the green and digital transition, and how the transition affects inequalities. Training opportunities that respond to emerging labour market needs and efforts to facilitate their uptake can promote a just and inclusive green and digital transition. In turn, education systems that equip young people not only with skills but attitudes to manage change can ensure that the green and digital transition is sustainable in the longer term.

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Empowering through health literacy: Skills to navigate health information and make informed decisions

This chapter focuses on health literacy, a key skill individuals need to acquire in order to deal with the increasing complexity of the health-related information landscape. Health literacy is an important determinant of how much health-related knowledge and information individuals can acquire and how they use such knowledge and information to promote and maintain their health. The chapter maps individuals’ health literacy levels in 15 OECD countries and the relevance of health literacy for health outcomes. It also presents initiatives developed by countries to promote health literacy and improve the quality of communication and information in the healthcare sector to ensure the sector adequately serves the needs of individuals with diverse levels of health literacy.

English Also available in: French

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