Health Literacy

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 audiences based on cultural competence and incorporating plain language approaches and new technologies.

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.

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

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

Leaders from academia, industry, government, foundations and associations, and representatives of patients and consumers 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.

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.