Health Literacy Resources

Click here to search PubMed for articles on Health Literacy that are in the Talbot Research Library's collection.

Here is a sample of the articles that you can find :

• Can this patient read and understand written health information? Powers BJ, Trinh JV, Bosworth HB. JAMA. 2010 Jul 7;304(1):76-84.
• Health literacy, numeracy, and interpretation of graphical breast cancer risk estimates. Brown SM, Culver JO, Osann KE, Macdonald DJ, Sand S, Thornton AA, Grant M, Bowen DJ, Metcalfe KA, Burke HB, Robson ME, Friedman S, Weitzel JN. Patient Educ Couns. 2010 May 27. [Epub ahead of print]
• Cancer risk communication with low health literacy patients: a continuing medical education program. Price-Haywood EG, Roth KG, Shelby K, Cooper LA. J Gen Intern Med. 2010 May;25 Suppl 2:S126-9.
• Health literacy skills of U.S. adults. Rudd RE. Am J Health Behav. 2007 Sep-Oct;31 Suppl 1:S8-18.

Books in the Talbot Research Library

• Health literacy from A to Z: practical ways to communicate your health message
  Helen Osborne.
  Sudbury, Mass: Jones and Bartlett, 2005.
  (RA440 .O825 2005)
• Understanding health literacy : implications for medicine and public health
  Joanne Schwartzberg, Jonathan B. VanGeest, Claire C. Wang ; section editors, Julie A. Gazmararian ... [et al.].
  [Chicago, Ill.] :American Medical Association, 2005.
  (RA440.5 .U485 2005)
• Advancing health literacy : a framework for understanding and action.
  Christina Zarcadoolas, et al.San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, an imprint of Wiley, 2006. (RA440.5 Z37 2006)
• E-book. Health Literacy: A prescription to end confusion. Lynn Nielsen-Bohlman, Aillison M. Panzer, David A. Kindig, Editors, Committee on Health Literacy, NAP Press; 2004.

Health Literacy Websites

• Clear Communication: An NIH Health Literacy Initiative.  This website defines health literacy, states health literacy objectives in Healthy People 2010 , and links to more information.
• Health information literacy from the Medical Library Association (MLA) . This website lists resources for health professionals, information professionals, and consumers.
• Health and Literacy Special Collection from the National Institutes for Literacy ( LINCS ) project.  This site was developed for health educators and lists curricula and multilingual resources, as well as health literacy research and organizations.
• Health Literacy from AMA Foundation
• Fox Chase Cancer Center Health Literacy Guide and Informed Consent Style Guide
• Health Literacy Studies: Harvard School of Public Health
• AHRQ Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit
• Tools to Improve Communication (Plainlanguage.gov)