Health and Adult Learning

Abstract

This article explores how the adult learning policy environment tends to be reconstructed in a broader way to include health and indirect lifelong learning policies. This shift is emerging in national health policies, which tend to complete their historical dominant curative orientation with new concerns for health literacy within new public health strategies. Similarly, innovative orientation of professional continuing education within health professions is reframing professional practices of physicians and transforming their initial and further education career to an extent that could be considered as prototypical for changes to come in other professions and occupations. A timid but steady transition is thus taking place from the health welfare system to a health participative and learnfare system.