Communication tools
- Ask Me 3 - National Patient Safety Foundation
- Ask for health info you can understand: Handout for personal health advocacy focusing on AskMe3 and Teach-back
- Improving Health Literacy, a message from Earvin 'Magic' Johnson
- Questions are the Answer - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
- SPAT, is a research-tested tool for evaluating the reliability of a Web site's content. Looking for health information online? Use the SPAT (Site, Publisher, Audience, Timeliness) method to assess whether Web site content is trustworthy, up-to-date, and appropriate to your needs.
- Take Charge of Your Health Care, from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' "Quick Guide to Healthy Living."NEW!!
Resources
- BAM! Body and Mind, an online destination from CDC for kids 9-13 years old created to give them information to make healthy lifestyle choices.
- Health Information from the National Institute on Aging
- Healthy Roads Media contains health information on more than 100 topics in 19 languages and is supported by the National Library of Medicine.
- Healthcare 411 is an audio podcast series produced by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Healthcare 411 gives consumers information they can use in their health care decision making.
- Influenza self-assessment tool and H1N1 information from Emory University
- Plain language educational materials from Health Literacy Now
- Iowa Women's Health Information Center
- KidsHealth, with sections for parents, kids and teens.
- Medline Plus: Encyclopedia
- Medline Plus: Dictionary
- Medline Plus Spanish
- My Plate, replaces USDA's Food Pyramid NEW!!
- The People's Pharmacy podcasts, newspaper articles, Q&A documents and more.
- WebMD
- Wellness Information Zone, plain language information about common diseases and medicines, healthy lifestyle choices, the medical and insurance systems, and more.
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