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Health Literacy Assessment Tools
- Assessing the Health Literacy Environment Links to toolkits, guides, and presentations for assessing health literacy in various environments.
- Health Literacy Measurement Tools Includes Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine—Short Form (REALM-SF) and Short Assessment of Health Literacy for Spanish Adults (SAHLSA-50).
- Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit Offers primary care practices a way to assess their services for health literacy considerations, raise awareness of the entire staff and work on specific areas.
- Is Our Pharmacy Meeting Patients’ Needs? Designed to be used in outpatient pharmacies of large, urban, public hospitals that primarily serve a minority population, but can be adapted for use in other pharmacy and non-pharmacy environments.
- Newest Vital Sign Includes signs of low health literacy, prevalence calculator and The Newest Vital Sign assessment tool. Also available in Spanish.
- Culture, Language, and Health Literacy Links to assessment tools, culture/language specific resources, health professions education materials and more.
