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
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Kaiser Health News
"...no one has ever complained that things were too simple. Everybody wants clear communication."
- Helping Patients Understand Their Medical Treatment By Sandra G. Boodman (Mar 01, 2011) Kaiser Health News, in collorboration with The Washington Post
- Plain Writing Act New U.S. law, which contains explicit references to health literacy, requires that information about medications and providers be made accessible to those with limited skills.
- National Action Plan To Improve Health Literacy
Toolkit for making material clear & effective
- Toolkit for Making Written Material Clear and Effective / Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) A health literacy resource. The 11-part Toolkit provides a set of tools to help make written material in printed formats easier for people to read, understand, and use.
Consumer Health Manual
- Consumer Health Manual National Network of Libraries of Medicine
Health Literacy
Health literacy is the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions. – About Health Literacy. HSRA <http://www.hrsa.gov/publichealth/healthliteracy/healthlitabout.html>
Healthy People 2020 Objectives for Health Literacy
- Ask Me 3 - National Patient Safety Foundation Ask Me 3TM is a registered trademark licensed to the National Patient Safety Foundation.
- Clear & Simple: Developing Effective Print Materials for Low-Literate Readers National Cancer Institute
- Health Communication, Health Literacy, and e-Health Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
- Health Literacy - Institue of Medicine (IOM) Includes: Health Literacy Implications for Health Care Reform - Workshop Summary Released: July 15, 2011
- Health Literacy NNLM (National Network of Libraries of Medicine)
- Health Literacy: Accurate, Accessible and Actionable Health Information for All CDC. Information and tools to improve health literacy and public health.
- Health Literacy Resources ACP Foundation (American College of Physicians Foundation)
- Health Literacy Resources Columbia School of Nursing
- Health Literacy Studies The Harvard School of Public Health: Health Literacy Studies Web Site.
- Health Literacy: A Manual for Clinicians / B. Weiss American Medical Association Foundation and American Medical Association;2003
- How to Write Easy-to-Read Health Materials MedlinePlus
- HRSA Health Literacy A free, on-line, go-at-your-own-pace training. The course has five modules that will take approximately five hours to complete. You can start and stop whenever you like.
- Improving Health Literacy - plainlanguage.gov President Obama signed the Plain Writing Act of 2010 on October 13, 2010. The law requires that federal agencies use "clear Government communication that the public can understand and use."
- Literacy and Health in America. Rudd R E, Kirsch I, and Yamamoto K.- Princeton, NJ:Educational Testing Services.2004.
- MedlinePlus: Health Information in Multiple Languages To find health information in languages other than English.
- Plain & Simple: A health literacy project for Iowa Iowa Department of Public Health
Literacy Assessment
- National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NALL) 2003 - A nationally representative assessment of English literacy among American adults age 16 and older.
- Pfizer Clear Health Communication Initiative
- Health Literacy Assessment Tool Columbia University School of Nursing.
- The Health Literacy of America's Adults The Health Literacy of America's Adults: Results from the 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy. NCES 2006-483 (ED493284)
- Literacy of Older Adults in America: Results from the National Adult Literacy Survey ED402513 - Literacy of Older Adults in America. Results from the National Adult Literacy Survey.
Brown, Helen; And Others - Readability Calculators and Formulas - IDPH - Plain & Simple Iowa Department of Public Health
Health Literacy
"As the debate over health care reform continues and the move toward more objective information about what really works medically and for whom continues, librarians will need to be sure that our support for health literacy includes components of EBP. This is, after all, one of the guiding principles of MLA: Quality information is essential for improved health."
- Connie Schardt, AHIP, FMLA. Health information literacy meets evidence-based practice J Med Libr Assoc. 2011 January; 99(1): 1–2.
- Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. A prescription to end confusion. Washington, DC: The Institute; 2004.
- Review the IOM report at NAP Press for free
Media
- Healthy Roads Media Health information in various languages and formats.
- MedlinePlus Interactive Videos
AMA Foundation
Health Literacy Videos
- AMA Foundation Videos
- "Health literacy and patient safety: Help patients understand" Techiques and specific steps for physicians and their staff on helping patients with limited health literacy.
- "Low health literacy: You can't tell by looking" Physicians and office staff interacting with real patients challenged by low health literacy.
Of interest
Zulick KM. Patient education and health literacy.
Perioperative Nursing Clinics 2009; 4(2): 157-65.
- Ann Fam Med. 2009 Jan-Feb;7(1):24-31 Jeppesen KM, Coyle JD, Miser WF. Screening questions to predict limited health literacy: a cross-sectional study of patients with diabetes mellitus.
Center for Studying Health System Change
- Surprising Decline in Consumers Seeking Health Information / Ha T. Tu Tracking Report No. 26 - November 2011
Ha T. Tu - Center for Studying Health System Change.
Resources in Multiple Languages
- Health Information Translations The four health systems in Central Ohio
- Healthy Roads Media Health information in many languages and multiple formats.
- Point-To-Talk Booklets The General Store Massachusetts General Hospital. Medical Interpreter Services.
- Refugee Health Information for Providers Refugee Health Information Network (RHIN)
- MedlinePlus: Health Information in Multiple Languages To find health information in languages other than English.
- Selected Patient Information Resources in Asian Languages. SPIRAL. Tufts University Hirsh Health Sciences Library
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