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Improving health communication and utilizing health technologies are essential to promoting individual and population health. Find key tools, research and reports, and resources for public health and ... Details >
Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Good communication between patients, family caregivers, and the health care team is very important in cancer care. ... Details >
Waiting in your doctor's office can make you feel nervous, impatient, or even scared. Knowing how to talk to your doctor, nurse, or other members of your health care team will help you get the informa... Details >
Part of the NIH mission is to reach all Americans with health information they can use, and to communicate in a way that helps people to easily understand research results. Read about the Plain Langu... Details >
Office of Communications and Public Liaison, National Institutes of Health
Newspapers often publish summaries of recent medical studies that claim to have found new ways to lower your risk for cancer. Learn how to analyze what you read so that you can judge the accuracy and ... Details >
Find information on the NIH Clear Communication program, including educational products, lessons learned, and research in the area of health literacy. ... Details >
Office of Communications and Public Liaison, National Institutes of Health
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This page presents an audio program interview with AHRQ Director, Dr. Carolyn Clancy, discussing questions to ask during your visit with a primary care health professional.... Details >
Learn how health communication and social marketing practices are used to create social change by changing people's attitudes, external structures, and/or modify or eliminate certain behaviors. ... Details >
National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP) offers this how-to guide for creating health Web sites and Web content for the millions of A... Details >
Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Unified Health Communication (UHC): Addressing Health Literacy, Cultural Competency, and Limited English Proficiency is free, on-line, go-at-your-own-pace training that has helped more than 4,000 heal... Details >
Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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