Health Literacy Resources

American Medical Association (AMA) Foundation -- has been working to raise awareness of health literacy through its health literacy toolkits, health literacy videos and health literacy partnerships.

Bilingual Patient Education Materials -- From the National Center for Farmworker Health, Inc., this portfolio of low-literacy, bilingual presentations is a patient education tool to supplement and enhance existing teaching methods in migrant health centers and outreach programs (Spanish/English).

California Health Literacy Initiative Resource Center -- The CHLI's goal is to impact the health and well-being of individuals with low literacy skills, their families, and their communities.

FDA Medicine Chart and Personal Information Sheet -- This record can be printed out and completed by hand, or it can be downloaded, completed electronically and stored on a computer.

Health Literacy and Patient Safety -- The Joint Commission's white paper entitled "What Did the Doctor Say?: Improving Health Literacy to Protect Patient Safety" is available.

University of Maryland Medical Center's Medical Encyclopedia -- Spanish language medical encyclopedia

National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Improving Health Literacy -- Provides definitions, resources and information for improving health literacy.

Newest Vital Sign (NVS) -- For use as a quick screening test for limited literacy in primary health care settings.

Healthy Roads Media -- Healthy Roads Media attends to issues of health literacy in its patient education materials and provides the information in a variety of languages and formats.

OHSU Hood River Community Health Outreach Project -- Low-literacy pamphlets in Spanish and English produced by project participants.

Partnership For Clear Health Communication -- Coalition of national organizations that are working together to promote awareness and solutions around the issue of low health literacy and its effect on health outcomes.

Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults (TOFHLA) -- An instrument for measuring patients' literacy skills.

US Food and Drug Administration Low-Literacy Brochures -- Available in English and Spanish versions, these easy-to-read brochures on a variety of topics can be viewed in HTML or PDF format.

Virginia Adult Education Health Literacy Toolkit -- Toolkit grew from many teachers' observations of adult literacy learners whose education paused or ended because a small health problem became bigger and brought on a host of other difficulties.