These
resources, compiled by the Health Resources and Administration (HRSA)
Health Literacy Work Group, are helpful in developing health literacy
programs and in providing training and technical assistance for
grantees.
HRSA
Health Literacy
HRSA's health literacy activities assist the Agency in accomplishing
its mission: to improve and expand access to quality health care
for all. HRSA's health care delivery sites, along with training
and education programs, work to reach out to those with low health
literacy skills to improve their quality of life.
http://www.hrsa.gov/quality/healthlit.htm
Building
a Health Literacy Curriculum
The University Of Virginia School Of Medicine has developed a Health
Literacy Curriculum. The guidelines include basic lectures and tools
to use in teaching the important skills of recognizing which patients
are unable to understand their medical needs and how to help those
patients reach that understanding. http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/internet/som-hlc/Curriculum.cfm
Harvard
School of Public Health Department of Health and Social Behavior
Health Literacy Studies
A research program of the National Center for the Study of Adult
Learning and Literacy.
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/healthliteracy/cite.html
HEALTH
- University of Cincinnati
Located in the Area Health Education Center Program of the University
of Cincinnati. Robert E. Burket, Executive Director of Health Learning
Resource Center at the University of (HEALTH-UC) compiled a list
of the Center's health literacy materials. An institution's library
or health education coordinator can borrow these materials.
http://www.health.uc.edu/resource.cfm
Health
Literacy (CBM 2000-1)
National Library of Medicine: Current Bibliographies in Medicine
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/cbm/hliteracy.html
Health
and Literacy Compendium
An annotated bibliography of print and Web-based health materials
for use with limited-literacy adults.
http://www.worlded.org/us/health/docs/comp/
Health
Literacy Month
Join with health literacy advocates around the world to promote
the need for understandable health information. Health Literacy
Month is a grassroots campaign. This means that individuals, organizations,
and communities can participate in whatever ways make sense for
them.
http://www.healthliteracymonth.org/
Health
Resources and Services Administration: Office of Minority Health
Study on Measuring Cultural Competence in Health Care Delivery Settings:
This study includes information on the cultural factors affect the
consumer-provider communication.
http://www.hrsa.gov/OMH/cultural/cultural.htm
Institute
of Medicine (IOM) Report: Priority Areas for National Action: Transforming
Health Care Quality
This report
identifies 20 priority areas for quality improvement. Two areas
are identified as cross-cutting -care coordination and self management/
health literacy- because these areas cut across specific conditions
and would benefit many patients.
http://www.nap.edu/books/0309085438/html/
Institute
of Medicine (IOM) Health Literacy Study
"Health Literacy:
A Prescription to End Confusion". Recommendations to address
the problem of health literacy within a public health/public education
framework
http://www.iom.edu/IOM/IOMHome.nsf/Pages/NBH+Health+Literacy
Let Everyone
Participate (LEP.gov)
Promotes a positive and cooperative understanding of the importance
of language access to federal programs and federally assisted programs.
http://www.lep.gov/about.html
National Medical
Association (NMA)
Focuses primarily on health issues related to African Americans
and medically underserved populations, however its principles, goals,
initiatives and philosophy encompasses all ethnic groups. Resource:
NMA Cultural Competence Primer
http://www.nmanet.org/
Partnership
for Clear Health Communication
A coalition of national organizations that are working together
to promote awareness and solutions around the issue of low health
literacy and its effect on health. Site includes a patient education
program: Ask Me 3.
http://www.askme3.org/PFCHC/about.asp
Plain
Language Action & Information Network
A government-wide group of volunteers working to improve communications
from the federal government to the public.
http://www.plainlanguage.gov/
The
America Medical Association Foundation
Helping Your Patients Understand: health literacy toolkits, news
and grants.
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/8115.html
The
El Paso Collaborative Health Literacy Curriculum
This
curriculum includes lessons developed to meet the educational and
health needs of students attending El Paso Community College/Community
Education Program.
Lessons can serve as a guide and may be replicable in entirety in
certain communities. Note ideas for collaboration and online resources
on this site.
www.worlded.org/us/health/docs/elpaso/
The Institute
for Healthcare Advancement
This California non-for profit, has published a "What to Do
for Health Series". The series is a set of books written at
the 3rd-5th grade reading level for pregnant women, parents, seniors
and caregivers. There is a link to a fact sheet on Research-Supported
Solutions under "Research Shows What to do for Health Series
Works".
http://www.iha4health.org/
The National
Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL)
These surveys are nationally representative and continuing assessment
of English language literacy skills of American adults.
http://nces.ed.gov/naal/
The National Institute
for Literacy (NIFL)
A federal organization that shares information about literacy and
supports the development of high-quality literacy services so all
Americans can develop essential basic skills. View special health
and literacy collection at: http://www.worlded.org/us/health/lincs/
http://www.nifl.gov/
The
Providers Guide to Quality and Culture
A web resource designed to assist health care professionals in providing
quality culturally and linguistically appropriate services to multicultural
populations.
http://bphc.hrsa.gov/quality/default.htm
The
State Official's Guide to Health Literacy
Reports the results of a 2002 national survey conducted to find
out what states are doing to improve health literacy or to make
the health care system easier to navigate. The Guide provides an
understanding of the problem, what can be done to improve health
literacy and access to health care. http://www.csg.org/CSG/Policy/health/
5/13/2004
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