LibGuides: Health Communication: Health Literacy

Resources

CDC Health Literacy Resources
Center for Disease Control - This site provides information and tools to improve health literacy and public health.
Health Literacy Online
Office of Disease Prevention and Promotion - This resource is a tool for developing actionable, usable websites and digital tools to effectively reach those with limited literacy or health literacy skills.
Health Literacy Tool Shed
Boston University - This is an online database of health literacy measures. The site contains information about measures, including their psychometric properties, based on a review of the peer-reviewed literature.

Health Literacy from A to Z: Practical Ways to Communicate your Health Message by Helen Osborne Contains strategies on how to meet health communication challenges. It includes a section with tactics in plain language communication.
Call Number: WA 590 O81h 2013
ISBN: 9781449600532
Publication Date: 2011-10-07
Letting Go of the Words: Writing Web Content that Works by Janice Redish Author, Ginny Redish is a world-renowned expert on information design and how to produce clear writing in plain language for the web. All of the invaluable information that she shared in the first edition is included with numerous new examples. New information on content strategy for web sites, search engine optimization (SEO), and social media make this once again the only book you need to own to optimize your writing for the web.
ISBN: 9780123859310
Publication Date: 2012-09-01

CDC Plain Language Resources
Contains a list of resources, created by the CDC, to help you develop and write material in plain language.
Plain Language: Getting Started or Brushing Up
This NIH website consists of five sections and a checklist you can print. In each section, you will find a number of cards you can flip through to learn about using plain language in your work.
Toolkit for Making Written Material Clear and Effective
This Toolkit, created by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, provides a detailed and comprehensive set of tools to help you make written material in printed formats easier for people to read, understand, and use.
CDC Clear Communication Index
The CDC Clear Communication Index (Index) is a research-based tool to help you develop and assess public communication materials.

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