AZHIN: HonorHealth Libraries: Patient Education & Health Literacy

Writing Plainly and Clearly

Always Use TeachBack! Toolkit Readings and Resources Click to open up a .pdf document. May require you to register but the account is free.
Arizona Health Literacy Coalition
Building Health Literate Organizations: A Guidebook to Achieving Organizational Change
Ready to really make a change? This is your guide!
How to write easy-to-read health materials
from MedlinePlus.gov
Health literacy interventions and outcomes:
an updated systematic review. 2011 March.
Health literacy fact sheets
from Center for Health Care Strategies, Inc.
Health Literacy ToolShed
Tools used to measure an individual's health literacy.
Health literacy universal precautions toolkit
from AHRQ. The basis of many patient education programs.
Teaching patients with low literacy skills by Doak, Doak, and Root. The patient education Bible!
Health literacy: a prescription to end confusion from the Institute of Medicine. A significant report in the fields of patient education and health literacy.
Search Open Payments Search payments made by drug and medical device companies to physicians and teaching hospitals.