Health literacy
(Nivel de información sobre temas de salud)
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Tools
(Herramientas)
- Health Literacy Improvement
Provides links to tools, government resources, plus reports and research to aid in improving health literacy.
Sponsoring organization: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- Health Literacy
Includes information on health literacy including definitions, skills needed for health literacy, background information, the role of the consumer health librarian, and health literacy programs.
Sponsoring organization: National Network of Libraries of Medicine
- Health Literacy Resources
Lists resources and tools that can be used to develop health literacy programs. Compiled by the Health Resources and Administration (HRSA) Health Literacy Work Group.
Sponsoring organization: Office of Rural Health Policy
- HRSA Health Literacy
Overviews health literacy issues with links to health literacy resources.
Sponsoring organization: Health Resources and Services Administration
- Health Literacy and Cultural Competency: Research Findings
Provides links to research activities regarding health literacy and cultural competency from the years 2002-2005.
Sponsoring organization: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
- Pfizer Clear Health Communication Initiative
Includes information and resources including what is health literacy, statistics, myths and reality, and signs of low health literacy.
Sponsoring organization: Pfizer
- Building a Health Literacy Curriculum
Offers guidelines for teaching the skills of recognizing which patients are unable to understand their medical needs and how to help those patients reach that understanding. General illiteracy, deafness and inability to comprehend English will be frequent types of Health Literacy issues.
Sponsoring organization: University of Virginia School of Medicine
- Harvard School of Public Health: Health Literacy Studies
Serves as the research program of the National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy, whose work is based in public health, health care settings, and adult education programs. Program maintains connections with public health and medical institutions, adult education programs, as well as to state departments of public health and education. Site is designed for professionals in health and education.
Sponsoring organization: Harvard School of Public Health
- Health Information Partners: Resources on Health Literacy
Contains links to health literacy resources and recommended sites.
- L.A. Care Health Plan: Health Information, Spanish
A list of health information documents in Spanish from the L.A. Care Health Plan's web repository of translated materials.
Sponsoring organization: California Endowment
- Patient Education Resources All Languages
List of links to patient education materials and brochures available in a variety of different languages.
Sponsoring organization: University of Washington
- Consumer Health Brochures in Multiple Languages
Electronic access to over 200 health education brochures in 24 different languages.
Sponsoring organization: Utah Department of Health
- Other Language Resources
Provides links to multilingual materials on health related topics.
Sponsoring organization: National Library of Medicine
- Health Information Translations
Provides culturally appropriate materials to promote health education and wellness among Limited English Proficiency (LEP) populations.
Sponsoring organization: Ohio State University
- Dental Resource Net: Patient Education Archive
Lists patient education handouts in 17 foreign languages that focus on dental health and care.
- Maternal and Child Health Library: Non-English Materials and Resources
An online catalog of maternal and child health materials and resources for consumers and professionals in numerous languages other than English.
Sponsoring organization: National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health
- Consumer Health Information for You and Your Family
Provides information on various health topics for consumers including medicines, vaccines, medical devices and procedures, prevention, food and nutrition, and animal health. Includes publications in Spanish.
Sponsoring organization: Food and Drug Administration
- NIH SeniorHealth.gov
Features consumer health information for older adults.
Sponsoring organization: National Institutes of Health
- A User's Guide to Finding and Evaluating Health Information on the Web
Provides tips on filtering the millions of health-related Web pages through the health subsets of major search engines and using quality electronic finding tools developed by the U.S. government to do an initial screen of Websites for further examination, and includes a set of guidelines developed for evaluating the content of health-related Websites.
Sponsoring organization: Medical Library Association
- MLANET Health Information Literacy
Offers a collection of resources and documents on health literacy for health and information professionals and for health consumers.
Sponsoring organization: Medical Library Association
- Ask Me 3
Provides information about health literacy for health care providers, patients, employers, and the media and includes brochures in English and Spanish. Lists questions to ask a doctor, nurse, or pharmacist and tips to better understand personal health.
Sponsoring organization: Pfizer
- The Health & Literacy Special Collection
Contains health curricula for literacy classes, resources to provide basic health information in simple language, resources in languages other than English, information about the link between literacy & health status, and links to organizations dedicated to health and literacy education.
Sponsoring organization: National Institute for Literacy
- Health Information in Multiple Languages
Provides access to consumer health information in languages other than English.
Sponsoring organization: National Library of Medicine
- Su Familia National Hispanic Family Health Helpline
Provides Hispanic consumers free reliable and confidential health information in Spanish and English and helps navigate callers through the health system. Nationwide resources and local referral services are provided depending on the need of the caller.
Sponsoring organization: National Alliance for Hispanic Health
- Virginia Adult Education Health Literacy Toolkit
Designed to help instructors and administrators better understand the problem of health literacy as it affects their adult learners. Provides resources to aid in curriculum and lesson plan development for use in adult health literacy education.
Sponsoring organization: Virginia Adult Learning Center
- New Americans Health Information Portal (NAHIP)
Serves as an Internet portal to identified quality multi-lingual health education documents and as a receptacle for health documents created by Heartland's Refugee Health Programs.
Sponsoring organization: Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights
Funding
(Financiamiento)
- CIGNA Foundation Grants
Targeted grants in five areas: Health of Women, Children & Families, Obesity Awareness & Prevention, Patient/Doctor Communications & Health Literacy, Disparities in Health Care, and Connection Between a Healthy Mind & Body.
Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline:
Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
Sponsor: CIGNA Foundation
- National Network of Libraries of Medicine Funding Opportunities
Small awards to network members to encourage them to interact with new communities and agencies, ideally leading to larger scale projects.
Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline:
Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
Sponsor: National Network of Libraries of Medicine
Publications
(Publicaciones)
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Health Literacy and Patient Safety: Help Patients Understand
Discusses the problem of limited health literacy and its consequences for the healthcare system. Provides practical tips for clinicians to use in making their office practices more "user-friendly" to patients with limited health literacy, and give suggestions for improving interpersonal communication between clinicians and patients. Serves as a manual for clinicians.
Author(s): Barry D.Weiss
Sponsoring organization: American Medical Association
Date: 06 / 2006
Format: PDF
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Health Literacy Fact Sheets
Created for those designing patient education materials for consumers with low health literacy skills. The sheets define health literacy, describe its impact on health outcomes, provide strategies to prepare appropriate educational materials to assist low-literate consumers, and provide resources for additional health literacy information and publications.
Author(s): Linda Potter, Constance Martin
Sponsoring organization: Center for Health Care Strategies
Date: 08 / 2005
Format: PDF
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Health Literacy in a Rural Clinic
Describes findings of a study assessing the health literacy of people seeking care in a rural health clinic in the southeastern United States.
Author(s): Felecia G. Wood
Sponsoring organization: Rural Nurse Organization
Journal citation: Online Journal of Rural Nursing and Health Care Volume: 5 Issue: 1 Date: 2005
Format: PDF
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Health Literacy Style Manual
Designed to aid in developing and improving applications, notices, and other print materials related to government programs. Includes examples from real programs and can be used to make materials more client-centered, thus increasing consumers' capacity to find and understand health information and services and to make informed health-related decisions.
Sponsoring organization: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Date: 10 / 2005
Format: HTML
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Health Literacy: A Prescription to End Confusion
Examines the body of knowledge that applies to the field of health literacy, and recommends actions to promote a health literate society.
Sponsoring organization: Institute of Medicine
Date: 2004
Format: HTML
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Language Access Solutions for OBGYN Medical Practices
Provides policy and practice recommendations to promote the use of language access practices that ensure interpretation, confidentiality, adherence to medical ethics standards, while discouraging the use of inappropriate methods.
Date: 2007
Format: PDF
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Limited English Proficiency, Primary Language at Home, and Disparities in Children's Health Care: How Language Barriers Are Measured Matters
Summarizes the Commonwealth Fund study of the same title and concludes that LEP is more useful than language spoken at home in gauging the impact of language barriers in children's health care.
Author(s): Glenn Flores, Milagros Abreu, Sandra C. Tomany-Korman
Sponsoring organization: Commonwealth Fund
Date: 2005
Format: PDF
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Low Health Literacy: How It Impacts Your Patients & What You Can Do about It
Defines low literacy and identifies how low literacy affects the health status of adults.
Author(s): Jean Blackwell
Date: 01 / 2005
Format: PDF
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MedlinePlus and the Challenge of Low Health Literacy: Findings From the Colonias Project
Discusses the Colonias Project, an 18-month outreach project with the goal of increasing the usage of MedlinePlus and MedlinePlus en español and overcoming associated problems with health literacy in low-income, medically underserved Hispanic communities (colonias) along the Texas-Mexico border, where residents primarily speak Spanish.
Author(s): Cynthia A. Olney, Debra G. Warner, Greysi Reyna, Fred B. Wood, Elliot R. Siegel
Sponsoring organization: Medical Library Association
Journal citation: Journal of the Medical Library Association Volume: 95 Issue: 1 Pages: 31-39
Date: 01 / 2007
Format: HTML
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Navigating Health: The Role of Health Literacy
Acts as a call to action for policymakers to make health literacy a central pillar in health policy discussions, research and action at an international, national, and local level.
Author(s): Ilona Kickbusch, Suzanne Wait, Daniela Maag
Sponsoring organization: Pfizer
Date: 2005
Format: PDF
Organizations
(Organismos)
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Center for Health Care Strategies
Works to promote high quality health care services for low-income populations and people with chronic illnesses and disabilities.
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Health Literacy Institute
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Healthy Roads Media
Contains free health education materials in a number of languages and a variety of formats. Being developed to study the value of these formats in providing health information for diverse populations in a variety of settings.
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