Patient Education

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

Featured Books

Health Literacy in the Literature