Library Guides: Health Literacy: A Guide: Books & Reports

Health Litaracy Books

Print books on health literacy can be found in a health science library with call number W 85

See also Health Education WA 590

Communicating Health: Priorities and Strategies for Progress. by Washington, DC:U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Rudd R.(2003)Objective 11-2. Improvement of health literacy. p.35–60.
Consumer health USA: essential information from the federal health network by Alan M. Rees.
Publication Date: Phoenix, Ariz. : Oryx Press, 1995-1997.
eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
Framing healthcare instruction : an information literacy handbook for the health sciences by Lauren M. Young, Elizabeth G. Hinton.
Call Number: WA 590 Y67f 2019
ISBN: 9781538118924
Publication Date: 2019
Handbook of health communication by Teresa L. Thompson
Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, c2003.
Health Literacy: a prescription to end confusion by Lynn Nielsen-Bohlman (Editor); Allison M. Panzer (Editor); David A. Kindig (Editor); Committee on Health Literacy; Board on Neuroscience and Behavioral Health Staff; Institute of Medicine (U.S.) Staff
ISBN: 9780309283328
Publication Date: 2004-07-29
NAP. National Academies Press, Free online PDF.
Proceedings of the Surgeon General’s Workshop on Improving Health Literacy: September 7, 2006
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.
Public Health and Preventive Medicine by Neal Kohatsu (Editor); John M. Last (Editor); Ross Brownson (Editor); Arnold J. Schecter (Editor); F Douglas Scutchfield (Editor); Robert Wallace
ISBN: 0071441980
Publication Date: 2007-09-21
Search for "Health Literacy". Rima E. Rudd, Jennie E. Anderson, Sarah C. Oppenheimer, Lindsay E. Rosenfeld and Carmen Gomez Mandic.

Health Literacy research articles and reports

New federal policy initiatives to boost health literacy can help the nation move beyond the cycle of costly 'crisis care'.
Koh HK, Berwick DM, Clancy CM, Baur C, Brach C, Harris LM, Zerhusen EG. Health Aff (Millwood). 2012 Feb;31(2):434-43.
Health literacy through the National Library of Medicine.
Logan RA. Health Aff (Millwood). 2012 May;31(5):1128
Screening questions to predict limited health literacy: a cross-sectional study of patients with diabetes mellitus.
Jeppesen KM, Coyle JD, Miser WF. Ann Fam Med. 2009 Jan-Feb;7(1):24-31
Health information literacy meets evidence-based practice
Connie Schardt, AHIP, FMLA. J Med Libr Assoc. 2011 January; 99(1): 1–2.

IOM - Health Literacy

Promoting Health Literacy to Encourage Prevention and Wellness
Workshop Summary and other related reports on Health Literacy from the Institute of Medicine