Resources on Health Literacy
Health Literacy
- Connecting for Health Literacy Workshop: Reach Out and Ready
February 20, 2007, by Dr. Terry Kind
- Health Literacy: A Prescription to End Confusion,
a report from the Institute of Medicine, 2004.
http://www.iom.edu/report.asp?id=19723 - Clear and Simple Communication
from the National Cancer Institute.
http://cancer.gov/cancerinformation/clearandsimple - National Institute for Literacy
has resources on different forms of literacy. See its Health and
Literacy site at http://www.worlded.org/us/health/lincs/
for health resources and lesson plans. - State Education Agency for Adult Education
lists opportunities for classes on literacy, the GED, and ESOL http://www.dcadultliteracy.org - Virginia Education Health Literacy Toolkit
provides information and lesson plans to promote health literacy.
http://www.aelweb.vcu.edu/publications/healthlit - National Center for ESL Literacy Education has resources on health literacy for ESL learners and teachers, including lesson plans and picture stories on health.http://www.cal.org/ncle/
- Literacy and Health in America, from the Educational Testing Service
(ETS) with Rima Rudd and others, discusses the relationship of literacy
and health (outside of the medical care system) and introduces a new
measurement device: the Health Activities Literacy Scale (HALS).
http://www.ets.org/research/pic/literacy&health.pdf - California Health Literacy Resource Center offers resources for learners and educators on easy to understand health information.
http://cahealthliteracy.org/