Articles  |  Tools  |  Links  |  Literature  |  Texas Research  

Articles

• Assessing the nation's health literacy: Key concepts and findings of the National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL)  -- AMA Foundation Report
• What? When Patients Just Don't Understand You   (Texas Medicine - April 2007)

Tools

• ACP Foundation Health Literacy Video
• CHCS Health Literacy Fact Sheets
• Covering Kids & Families -- Health Literacy Style Manual
• CSG's State Official's Guide to Health Literacy and Health Literacy Tool Kit
• AHRQ Health Literacy Assessment Tools
• Healthy Roads Media Take Medicine Safely  --  English Written; English Audio
• HHS Quick Guide to Health Literacy
• Medline Plus -- How to Write Easy to Read Health Materials
•  Medscape CME/CE activity  "Assuring Quality Care for People with Limited Health Literacy"  

Links

• AMA Foundation Health Literacy
• California Health Literacy Initiative ;  Resource Center  
• Canadian National Literacy and Health Program
• Centre for Literacy  
• HRSA Health Literacy  
• Institute for Healthcare Advancement (IHA): Health Literacy
• Institute of Medicine Health Literacy
• National Adult Literacy Database
• National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL)
• NN/LM Health Literacy Consumer Information
• NYC Health Literacy Initiative
• Plain Language.Gov Health Literacy
• Risk Communication Institute

Literature

• AHRQ Literacy and Health Outcomes
• Health and Literacy Compendium  
• IOM Health Literacy: A Prescription to End Confusion
•  JCAHO  "What Did The Doctor Say? Improving Health Literacy to Protect Patient Safety"

Texas Research

• Brazos Area Health Education Center (BAHEC);  Health Literacy  
• El Paso Collaborative Health Literacy Initiative  
• Literacy Coalition of Central Texas  
• Texas Center for the Advancement of Literacy and Learning  

Questions or Suggestions? 
Please contact Barbara Tims, Knowledge Center Librarian at (800) 880-1300, ext. 1548, (512) 370-1548, or Barbara Tims.