LibGuides: Health Studies: Health Literacy

Writing for Health Literacy

CDC Health Literacy Basics
-What is Health Literacy?
-Understanding Health Literacy.
-Understanding Literacy and Numeracy.
-and much more.
CDC: Health Literacy Homepage
Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
- Create a Plan
- Develop & Test
- Guidelines, Laws & Standards
- Research (evidence)
- Evaluate
CDC Simply Put: A guide for creating easy-to-understand materials (CDC)
Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC)
Guide for creating easy-to-understand materials
- Text Appearance
- Visuals Help
- Layout & Design
- Culture
- Translations
- Testing Readability
- Checklist for Print Materials
- Reading Formulas

AHRQ Health Literacy
Health Literacy resources to help healthcare professionals and delivery organizations make information easier to understand and make systems easier to navigate.

Resources:
+ Tools for Professionals, Researchers, Organizations, Systems
+ Professional Education / Training
+ Patient Education
+ Health Information Technology
+ Health Literacy Frameworks & Models
+ Articles, Papers, Reports, Podcasts, Videos
+ Impact Studies

AHRQ Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit
Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ)
Toolkit Table of Contents
- Tools to Start
- Tools to Improve Spoken
- Tools to Improve Written
- Tools to Improve Self-Mgt/Empower
- Tools to improve Support Systems
AHRQ Health Literacy: Barriers & Strategies
PowerPoint Presentation
30 slides plus Speakers Notes
AHRQ Pharmacy Health Literacy Center
-- 4 health literacy tools
-- curricular modules
-- Resources for pharmacists
-- Pharmacy Health Literacy Assessment Tool & User's Guide
-- Guide on How to Create a Pill Card
-- Telephone Reminder Tool
AHRQ Patient Education Materials Assessment Tool (PEMAT)
AHRQ Health Literacy Assessment Tool
User's Guide
How To Use the PEMAT To Assess Material

NIH Clear Communication: Health Literacy
-Clear & Simple
-Cultural Respect
-Language Access
-Talking to Your Doctor
-Plain Language
-Ideas
-Goals
-Training, Toolkits, & Workshops

AHRQ Health Literacy Measurement Tools (Revised)
How to Assess It (3 Tools)
SAHL-S Test Form & User's Guide (PDF)
SAHL-E Test Form & User's Guide (PDF)
REALM-SF (PDF)
SAHLSA-50 (PDF) with Key
CDC Measuring Skills & Experiences
National Adult Literacy and Numeracy Surveys
K-12 Literacy, Numeracy, and Science Skills
Measures of Individuals' Health Literacy
Health Literacy Tool Shed (NIH / NLM)
Find Measures using Health Literacy Domains

CDC Testing Messages & Materials
Resources for Testing Messages and Materials
Health Literacy Readability Testing
Indian Health Services: Measuring Readability
Tool 13: Assessing Readability Level Reading Formulas
-Flesch Reading Ease
-Fry Graph Readability Formula
-SMOG Readability Formula
Flesch Kincaid Grade Level
PerryMarshall
Score the Grade Level of Your Text

CMS Guidelines for Writing
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Toolkit Part 4: Guidelines for Writing

HRSA Health Literacy
Health Resources & Services Administration
What is our role?
Reasons for low health literacy
How professionals can help
Terms & Definitions

Health People 2020: Health Literacy (Archived)
5 place-based domains
See extensive Reference List
Healthy People 2030
Healthy People 2030 sets data-driven national objectives to improve health and well-being over the next decade

Health Literacy (NLM / NNLM)
National Institutes of Health: National Library of Medicine
National Network of Libraries of Medicine
-Definitions
-Cultural Context
-Skills Needed
-Prevalence of Low Health Literacy
-Economic Impact
-Initiatives
-Research
Five Steps for Plain Language
1. identify audience
2. structure content
3. short; simple
4. design
5. test design & content
Easy To Read TOPICS
National Institutes of Health
National Library of Medicine
Easy-to-Read Health TOPICS List (Alphabetical)