Health Literacy: Speak Plain Language: Find Books & More

Provides practical tips for clinicians to use in making their office practices more “user-friendly” to patients with limited health literacy, and give suggestions for improving interpersonal communication between clinicians and patients.

Examines the body of knowledge that applies to the field of health literacy, and recommends actions to promote a health literate society.

Updated communication planning guidelines to account for the advances in knowledge and technology that have occurred during the past decade.

Summary of a workshop convened in April 2013 by the Institute of Medicine Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice Roundtable on Health Literacy. Discusses implementation approaches and shares tools that could be used in implementing specific literacy strategies.

Contains a basic overview of key health literacy concepts; techniques for improving health literacy through communication, navigation, knowledge-building, and advocacy; examples of health literacy best practices; and suggestions for addressing health literacy in your organization.

Bibliography of 651 citations from January 1998 through November 2003, plus selected earlier and later citations.

Health literacy advocate Helen Osborne talks with Lisa Bernstein, Executive Director and Co-founder of the What to Expect Foundation based in New York City, to discuss effective new ways to create health education materials.

Health literacy advocate Helen Osborne talks with Mark Hochhauser, a readability consultant, who explains readability assessment tools and alternative ways to measure understanding.

Health literacy advocate Helen Osborne talks with Archie Willard, who did not learn to read until he was 54, to explore how reading problems can affect a person's health and ways to improve communication between health care providers and adult learners.