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Health Literacy
 AskMe3 - Partnership for Clear Health Communication
AMA Health Literacy Kit - American Medical Association
Pfizer Clear Health Communication Initiative
Health Literacy Consulting
Health Literacy Fact Sheets - Center for Health Care Strategies
Quick Guide to Health Literacy - US Dept. of Health and Human Services
Health Literacy Project - Institute of Medicine
Clear Health Communication Initiative - Pfizer
Health Literacy Studies - Harvard School of Public Health
Simply Put - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Writing Easy-to-Read Materials - Center for Medicare Education
Clear & Simple: Developing Effective Print Materials for Low-Literate Readers - National Cancer Institute
How to Write Easy-to-Read Health Materials - MedlinePlus
Fry's Readability Graph and Directions
SMOG Readability Formula - University of Utah Health Sciences Center
Words to Watch Fact Sheet
Substitute Word List - University of Utah Health Sciences Center
Plain Language Initiative
Easy-to-Read Health Materials - MedlinePlus
Culture Clues - University of Washington Medical Center
- Health literacy: help your patients understand
- Chicago, Ill.: American Medical Association Foundation and American Medical Association, c2003.
DVD (23 min.) and CD-ROM (23 min.)
online video - requires Windows Media Player or Real Media
Location: HSL Educational Media WA 590 VC3 2003
- Health Literacy: A prescription to end confusion
- Institute of Medicine, 2004
online video (3 min.) - requires Windows Media Player or RealTime
- In plain language: the need for effective communication in medicine and public health
- Harvard School of Public Health, c2000.
1 videocassette (14 min.)
Location: HSL Educational Media W 85 VC6 2000
- Low health literacy: you can't tell by looking
- AMA Foundation, 2001
online video (18 min.) - requires Windows Media Player or Real Media
- Overcoming patient language barriers
- Irvine, CA: Concept Media, c2001
2 videocassettes (56 min.)
Location: HSL Ethnic Health W 85 VC5 2001
- Treatment adherence: how to improve patient compliance
- Secaucus, N.J.: Network for Continuing Medical Education, c2002
1 videocassette (46 min.)
Location: HSL Educational Media NCME #802
- Secret survivors: the plight of functionally illiterate adults in the health care environment
- Syracuse, NY: Literacy Volunteers of America, c1992
1 videocassette (17 min.)
Location: HSL Ethnic Health W 85 VC4 1992
- Advancing health literacy: a framework for understanding and action
- Christina Zarcadoolas, Andrew F. Pleasant, David S. Greer. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2006
Location: Health Sciences Library Books WA 590 Z36a 2006
- Easy does it! Plain language and clear verbal communication training manual
- Ottawa: National Literacy and Health Program, Canadian Public Health Association, 1998
Location: Health Sciences Library W 85 E13 1998
- Good medicine for seniors : guidelines for plain language and good design in prescription medication
- Canadian Public Health Association, 2002
- Handbook of health communication
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edited by Teresa L. Thompson et al.
Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003
Location: HSL Books W 62 H236 2003
- Health literacy and patient safety: help patients understand: manual for clinicians, 2nd ed.
- Barry D. Weiss. AMA Foundation, 2007
- Health literacy : a prescription to end confusion
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Institute of Medicine; Lynn Nielsen-Bohlman et al.
Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press, c2004
Location: HSL Books WA 590 H43475 2004
- Health literacy from A to Z: practical ways to communicate your health message / Helen Osborne.
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Sudbury, Mass : Jones and Bartlett, c2005
Location: HSL Books WA 590 O81h 2005
- Health literacy in primary care: a clinician's guide
- Gloria G.Mayer and Michael Villaire. New York: Springer Pub., 2007
Location: Health Sciences Library WA 590 M468h 2007
- Health literacy of America's adults: results from the 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy.
- National Center for Education Statistics, 2006
- Health literacy style manual
- prepared by Maximus for Covering Kids & Families; funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2005
- Just What Did the Doctor
Order? Addressing Low Health Literacy in North Carolina.
- NC IOM Task Force on Health Literacy. Durham, NC. August 2007.
- Literacy and health outcomes
- RTI International-University of North Carolina Evidence-Based Practice Center; Nancy D. Berkman et al. Rockville,
Md.: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2004
Location: Health Sciences Library Reference WA 590 L7763
- Pfizer principles for clear health communication, 2nd ed.
- Pfizer, 2004
- Teaching patients with low literacy skills, 2nd ed.
- Cecilia Conrath, Doak, Leonard G. Doak, Jane H. Root. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1996
Location: Health Sciences Library Books W 85 D631t 1996
- TOFHLA: Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults, 2nd ed.
- Joanne R. Nurss et al. Snow Camp, NC: Peppercorn Books, 2001
Location: HSL Reference WA 590 T644 2001
- Understanding health literacy: implications for public health
- Joanne G. Schwartzberg et al. Chicago IL: AMA Press, 2005
Location: HSL Books WA 590 U55 2005
- "What did the doctor say?" improving health literacy to protect patient safety.
- The Joint Commission, 2007
- Working with your older patient: a clinician's handbook
- National Institute on Aging, 2004
- Writing health information for patients and families: a guide to creating patient education materials that are easy to read, understand and use, 2nd ed.
- Lindsay Wizowski, Theresa Harper, Tracy Hutchings. Hamilton, ON: Hamilton Health Sciences, 2006
Location: Health Sciences Library W 85 W835w 2006
Search these databases for articles on health literacy.
- PubMed
- PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, includes citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.
- CINAHL
- CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health) covers nursing, allied health, biomedical and consumer health journals, publications of the American Nursing Association, and the National League for Nursing. It also includes healthcare books, nursing dissertations, standards of professional practice, nurse practice acts, and educational software.
- Academic Search Premier
- Academic Search Premier provides information from a wide range of academic areas including business, social sciences, humanities, general academic, general science, education and multi-cultural topics. This multidiscplinary database features full-text for over 4,000 journals with many dating back to 1975, abstracts and indexing for over 8,200 scholarly journals, and coverage of The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and The Christian Science Monitor. It also includes coverage of over 6,800 peer-reviewed journals.
- ERIC
- Produced by the Educational Resource Information Center, ERIC provides indexing and abstracting for journal and report literature (1966 to the present) in education and related disciplines. Also includes curricular materials such as courses of study, books, conference papers, and theses.
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