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Health Literacy

Health Literacy: Practical Tools for Improving Communication presentation by Paul Smith, MD, Associate Professor University of Wisconsin Department of Family Medicine, 2007

Health Literacy Resources by Paul Smith, MD, Associate Professor University of Wisconsin Department of Family Medicine, 2007

Calculating Readability Statistics by Paul Smith, MD, Associate Professor University of Wisconsin Department of Family Medicine, 2007

AMA Foundation Health Literacy (American Medical Association Foundation)

Clear & Simple: Developing Effective Print Materials for Low-Literate Readers, step by step guide (NIH)

Health and Literacy Special Collection

Health Literacy Improvement (Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion)

Health Literacy Resources (American College of Physicians Foundation)

MedlinePlus: How to Write Easy to Read Health Materials. Excellent resource with step by step instructions

MedlinePlus: Interactive tutorials with audio about a large number of health topics, tests and diagnostic procedures

National Institutes of Health: Improving Health Literacy

PlainLanguage.gov Health Literacy

Teaching Patients with Low Literacy Skills (Harvard)