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Health Literacy Websites

AHRQ: Health Literacy - improvement tools, professional education and training, and health literacy publications

CDC: Health Literacy - includes information and tools on health literacy research, practice, and evaluation

CDC: Health Literacy Training - online health literacy courses for health professionals

HealthyPeople.gov: Health Literacy - personal health literacy and organizational health literacy

HHS: Think Cultural Health - for health care professionals to learn about culturally and linguistically appropriate services (CLAS)

MedlinePlus: Health Literacy - NLM resources and research on Health Literacy

Plain Language Action and Information Network (PLAIN) - improve health literacy with plain language

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Health Literacy in the Literature