Health Literacy

Provides evidence-based resources to assist practitioners in promoting better understanding of health information by all patients.

From the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP) this updated guide provides practical tips to help create intuitive, easy-to-use digital health information tools.

Six online health literacy courses for health professionals

Outlines five standard steps for developing health information materials for people with limited-literacy skills.

From the Plain Language Action and Information Network, provides an overview of the plain language movement and includes guidelines for creating plain language materials as well and tools for trainers.

Health literacy resource from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) provides a detailed and comprehensive set of tools to help make written material in printed formats easier for people to read, understand, and use.

Toolkit designed to help health care providers learn to use teach-back to support patients and families throughout the care continuum; combines health literacy principles of plain language, using teach-back to confirm understanding, and behavior change principles of coaching.

Ask Me 3® is an educational program developed by Institute for Healthcare Improvement / National Patient Safety Foundation that encourages patients and families to ask three specific questions of their providers to better understand their health conditions and what they need to do to stay healthy. Requires free registration to access complimentary material.

Provides information and links to other websites to help patients learn about having an active role in their health care.

Helps patients create a list of questions to ask their doctor or pharmacist.

Tutorial to help patients learn how to put together parts of medical words, includes quizzes to test them on what they've learned.