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- What is Health Literacy?
An overview of health literacy and its place in adult education. Includes examples of health literacy needs, and ideas for forming community collaborations with health entities.
http://healthliteracy.worlded.org/muro.htm - System for Adult Basic Education Support (SABES)
Lots of teacher resources. Click on SABES Health Site for information on connecting health and literacy education, fostering community collaborations, and encouraging student leadership. There are also curriculum materials.
http://www.sabes.org/ - Virginia Adult Education Health Literacy Toolkit
This toolkit is a resource to help adult educators better understand health literacy and support creative approaches to increasing students' health literacy skills as they engage in adult literacy instruction.
http://www.aelweb.vcu.edu/publications/healthlit/ - Health Education and Adult Literacy: Breast and Cervical Cancer (HEAL:BCC)
Companion piece to the Breast and Cervical Cancer Curriculum. Includes information on connecting health with literacy, and good Web links to information on cancer and early detection.
http://www.worlded.org/us/health/heal/ - Culture, Health and Literacy
This guide lists resources for teaching health to people with limited English literacy skills. The focus is on resources for multicultural populations, and materials available in languages other than English. Includes web resources, and ordering information for free print materials.
http://www.worlded.org/us/health/docs/culture/ - The Health and Literacy Compendium
Contains general health literacy resources, including materials development and preparing to teach health in literacy classrooms.
http://www.worlded.org/us/health/docs/comp/
e-for-easy materials and activities include some audio and visuals, and do not rely only on the ability to read print.