Home Health Educators Health Literacy Initiatives
- AMA Foundation Health Literacy Initiative
The AMA Foundation is working to raise awareness among health care providers about the link between health and literacy. Visit their website to find out more about their toolkit, train-the-trainers seminar, grants program, and more.
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/8115.html - Ask Me 3
A solution-based initiative to improve health communication between patients and providers. Visit the Ask Me 3 website to learn more about the Partnership for Clear Health Communication, their action agenda, promotional materials, and white paper.
http://www.askme3.org - The California Health Literacy Initiative
This Initiative serves the state of California and offers a wide range of health literacy information and services. Their Health Literacy Resource Center links users to Web-based resources on a variety of health literacy topics.
http://cahealthliteracy.org/index.html - Current Bibliographies in Medicine/Health Literacy
This site is part of the National Library of Medicine Database, and has a huge amount of background information about health literacy. You can read about strategies in health literacy, tactics for educational programs, readability formulas, special populations, client communication, and cultural competency, among other things. You can also search for bibliographies of journal articles.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/cbm/hliteracy.html - Health Literacy Studies/Harvard School of Public Health
This site has information for researchers and practitioners in the public health, medical, and adult education fields. You can find the following health literacy materials: power point overview, preview of a new video, curricula, literature review, annotated bibliography, and links to related sites. Of special interest to literacy teachers and learners is a listing of links to Easy-To-Read health information sites, grouped by health topic.
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/healthliteracy - Literacy and Health for Life / Alphabétisation et Santé pour la Vie
The Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA) and the University of Toronto's Centre for Health Promotion have launched a three-year project to develop a national program for literacy and health research. A number of their research reports are available online.http://www.nlhp.cpha.ca/
- Medical Library Association Health Information Literacy
Describes MLA's efforts to foster an understanding among health professionals, educators, and librarians of the role that health information literacy plays in empowering people to read, understand, and act. Includes resources for health information professionals and consumers.
http://www.mlanet.org/resources/healthlit/tfhil_info.html - Pfizer Clear Health Communication Initiative
Pfizer supports research (in both academic and clinical settings) to determine the causes of inadequate health literacy, the scope and impact of the problem, and begin to develop solutions that center around clear communication. Visit their site to learn more about the Florida health literacy study, community-based initiatives, grants program, and more.
http://www.pfizerhealthliteracy.com/