Health Literacy Resources
News Items
- New Federal Policy Initiatives To Boost Health Literacy Can Help The Nation Move Beyond The Cycle Of Costly 'Crisis Care', Jan. 2012
- Attributes of a Health Literate Organization [PDF], paper from the Institute of Medicine
- CDC launches new website: Health Literacy: Accurate, Accessible and Actionable Health Information for All
- National Action Plan to Improve Health Literacy—Plan and summary released May 2010 by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.
- Health Literacy as a Universal Precaution—Toolkit created by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Health Literacy Information
- National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
- The National Library of Medicine's Current Bibliographies in Medicine: Understanding Health Literacy and its Barriers (651 citations)
- Harvard University Health Literacy Page
- Joint Commission public policy paper on health literacy
- Communicating Health: Priorities and Strategies for Progress
- Focus on Basics: Connecting Research and Practice, a quarterly publication of the National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy
- Outreach and Technical Assistance Network (OTAN)
- National Library of Medicine health literacy citations
- The International Alliance of Patients' Organizations' articles and resources including for patient education
- The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) health literacy information
- Institute of Medicine Health Literacy information
- NIH Improving Health Literacy Page
- The Administration on Aging and the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion of the US Department of Health and Human Services health literacy resources
- Hospitals and Health Networks Magazine article: The Price of Poor Literacy
- U.S. Department of Education State and County Estimates of Low Literacy
- Article on Health Literacy
Online Tutorials
- Health Literacy and Public Health—New York/New Jersey Public Health Training Center
- National Institutes of Health Plain Language Training
- PlainTrain—Plain Language Online Training Program
- Unified Health Communication 101: Addressing Health Literacy, Cultural Competency, and Limited English Proficiency—Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
Resources for Teaching
- American Medical Association (AMA): Health Literacy: A Manual for Clinicians [PDF]
- Health Literacy Consulting
- ERIC Practice Brief exploring the health-literacy connection and describes practices for embedding health education and promotion into adult literacy programs [PDF]
- American Medical Association Foundation Low Health Literacy: You can't tell by looking
- Executive Summary of the American College of Physicians (ACP) Foundation's Fifth Annual National Health Communication Conference, Moving Toward Real Solutions: Advances to Address Low Health Literacy [PDF]
Cultural Competence
- Self Assessment for Cultural Competence
- ASHA Office of Multicultural Affairs
- Special Interest Group 14, Cultural and Linguistic Diversity, publishes articles on consumer health education in its member newsletter, specifically including the importance of sensitivity to cultural differences.
- National Center for Cultural Competence
