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American Medical Association Foundation: Health Literacy Kit
Health Literacy is one of the programs of the American Medical Association Foundation. The Health Literacy Educational Kit is the Foundation's primary tool for informing physicians, health care professionals and patient advocates about health literacy.
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Partnership for Clear Health Communication
The Partnership for Clear Health Communication is a 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. Through patient and provider education materials developed by leading health literacy experts "Ask Me 3" promotes three simple but essential questions that patients should ask their providers in every health care interaction.
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The Literacy Information aNd Communication System: LINCS
LINCS is the literacy community's gateway to the world of adult education and literacy resources on the Internet. The goal of LINCS is to bring adult literacy-related resources and expertise to a single point of access for users throughout the world.
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World Education: Health & Literacy Special Collection
This Health & Literacy Special Collection is compiled and updated, by World Education staff: Sabrina Kurtz-Rossi, Steve Quann, and Julie McKinney. Support for this and other Special Collections comes from the National Institute for Literacy (NIFL) and their LINCS Project. This site is for teachers, students, health educators, or anyone interested in teaching health to people with limited literacy skills.
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NIFL: National Institute for Literacy
NIFL is a federal organization leading the national efforts towards a fully literate nation. NIFL is a resource for information about literacy initiatives and organizations at the state or national level. Its Website is a network of adult literacy information, resources, and communication.
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Plain Language: Improving Health Literacy
The Plain Language Action & Information Network is a government-wide group of volunteers working to improve communications from the federal government to the public. Plain language (also called Plain English) is communication your audience can understand the first time they read or hear it. This site provides information on health communication for consumers.
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Canadian National Literacy and Health Program
This is the site for the National Literacy and Health Program of the Canadian Public Health Association. The site offers resources, the pain-word game, and links to Plain Language Services and the Directory of Plain Language Health Information.
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MLANET: Health Information Literacy Task Force
The Medical Library Association Task Force on Health Information Literacy is cognizant that many people lack the ability to understand and use the information they need to make good health decisions. This is a link to the resources compiled by the Task Force that is committed to increase health literacy by fostering among health professionals, educators, and librarians an understanding of the role that health information literacy plays in empowering people to read, understand, and act.
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Science and Literacy for Health Drug Education Partnership
This is a link to the home page for the Science and Literacy for Health Drug Education Partnership, a collaboration between The American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). The project's goal is to improve the scientific literacy of all adults by identifying and creating culturally sensitive materials for use in literacy programs.
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HPC: Health Literacy Project
The Health Literacy Project (HLP) was started in 1988 to close the communication gap between low income, high risk consumers and their providers. It currently offers consultation services regionally and nationally. HPC has created low-literacy health education materials in English, Spanish, and a selection of Asian languages.
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