Healthy People 2010 Health
Communication Focus Area
This new focus area in Healthy People addresses Internet use, quality of health Web sites, provider-patient communication and other health communication issues.

• Midcourse Review — Focus Area 11
• Data2010
• PubMed dynamic literature search by health communication objective

Health Literacy Improvement
Health literacy is the capacity to obtain, process and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions.

• Tools for improving health literacy
• Government resources
• Reports and research

Consumer and Patient e-Health
E-Health is the use of information and communication technologies to improve people's health and health care.

• Reports
• 2005 Technology Showcase

Resources
Use these quick links to learn more about research and practice in the field of health communication.

• Making Health Communication Programs Work (NCI's Pink Book)
• CDCynergy
• Health Communication Programs and Offices at HHS
• Associations for Health Communication Professionals

Last updated: January 28, 2008

What's New

Report

• Quick Guide to Health Literacy and Older Adults
• Proceedings of the Surgeon General's Workshop on Improving Health Literacy

Tools for Healthier People

This section points you to Healthy People 2010 objectives related to health communication and information resources from healthfinder.gov.  Topics are based on the National Health Observances calendar.

February is Heart Month.  Talk to adults over 20 about warning symptoms and signs of a heart attack.  If they think they are having a heart attack, call 911.

• Go to Objective 12-2
• healthfinder.gov resources on "heart attack"