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Defines health literacy, discusses its prevalence and outlines how health professionals can help.

Key tools, research and reports, and resources from the Office of Disease Prevention & Health Promotion.

Overview of health literacy, including research findings and the economic impact of low health literacy.

Provides links to information about health literacy, including clinical trials, journal articles and glossaries.

Answers common questions about health literacy and provides links to helpful reports and Websites.

Overview of health literacy concepts, techniques for improving health literacy and suggestions for addressing health literacy in your organization.

A program to promote communication between health care providers and patients in order to improve health outcomes.

Focuses on providing information that is accessible to specific audiences based on cultural competence and incorporating plain language approaches and new technologies.

An initiative from Pfizer to teach health care providers, public health professionals and public policy makers about the importance of clear communication in the health care delivery system.

Promotes information about medicine safety to adults with limited literacy skills.

Helps organizations communicate health information in ways that patients, families, and employees can understand.

The Health Literacy Studies at Harvard is engaged in a variety of research efforts focused on communication and literacy skills.

The group’s goal is to further health literacy collaborations among university disciplines to improve health outcomes.

Initiative to improve the readability of consent forms and other print materials used in communication with study participants.

Brings together leaders from academia, industry, government, foundations and associations, and representatives of patient and consumer interests who have an interest and role in improving health literacy.

Seeks to engage organizations, professionals, policymakers, communities, individuals, and families in a linked, multisector effort to improve health literacy.

Action plans to achieve Health Communication Objectives in HP 2010.

With the click of a button, search for articles in PubMed.

Learn about the history and development of HP 2020.

Includes objective for improving health literacy of the population.

Index to objectives and topic areas in HP 2020.

PubMed search strategies for the Healthy People 2020 objectives.