Consumer Health Resources
Resources for Professionals
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Consumer Health Materials
Arizona Online Consumer Health Directories Find health care providers and facilities in your area. Find resources on health topics. AZ Links www.azlinks.gov
General Online Consumer Health Directories
Arizona Go Local www.azgolocal.com
AZ Health Info www.azhealthinfo.org
Resources for older adults and persons with a disability; find support organizations and providers.
Health Guide America www.hgamerica.org
Links to reliable consumer health websites, Arizona programs, and information on navigating the health care system
Medline Plus http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/
from the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health
Ask Me 3
http://www.npsf.org/askme3/
Sponsored by the Partnership for Clear Health Communication at the National Patient Safety Foundation. Ask Me 3 promotes three simple but essential questions that patients should ask their providers in every health care interaction: 1)What is my main problem?; 2) What do I need to do?; 3) Why is it important for me to do this?
HL Resources – Tools – Reference Materials
Health Literacy Resources Arizona - Resources for health care professionals and educators. Find links to tool, training materials, and studies on health literacy. This website was created by an Arizona workgroup and is hosted by the University of Arizona, College of Pharmacy.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) invites you to visit Health Literacy: Accurate, Accessible and Actionable Health Information for All, the agency’s new health literacy web site www.cdc.gov/healthliteracy.
The Harvard School of Public Health has a website with many resources for health professionals and consumers , curricula, program guides for health literacy initiatives, videos, how to create photonovels, and much more.
Health Literacy Studies
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/healthliteracy/
Penny Glassman from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine put together this resource page: Health Literacy
http://nnlm.gov/outreach/consumer/hlthlit.html
The Medical Library Association’s Health Literacy Project – Includes resources for health professionals and consumers
http://www.mlanet.org/resources/healthlit/
Here is an announcement about an online tutorial which is geared to health professionals. It was created in Moodle. Another version will be coming out soon specifically for librarians – I will find out when to expect that version.
* MLA Releases Web-based Health Information Literacy Tutorial*
MLA is happy to announce the availability of a free web-based health information literacy tutorial, "Prescription for Information: Addressing Health Information Literacy http://mla.mrooms.org/ developed by Gail Kouame, Consumer Health Coordinator, National Network of Libraries of Medicine Pacific Northwest Region, for MLA's Health Information Literacy (HIL) Research Project. The tutorial is for health care providers and emphasizes the importance of health literacy and the challenges patients face in understanding medical terminology. It also helps participants recognize the impact that low health literacy has on patient care and learn about health information resources and strategies available to them and their patients. The tutorial also describes health literacy services provided by medical librarians.
The "Prescription for Information" tutorial is based upon the health information literacy curriculum, "Putting Information into Health Literacy," developed by Sabrina Kurtz-Rossi for the MLA HIL project. The project was funded under NLM contract HHSN276200663511/NO1-LM-6-3511 with co-principal investigators Jean Pugh Shipman, AHIP, FMLA, and Carla J. Funk, CAE.
Iowa Department of Public Health
The Plain and Simple project website offers tools, information on readability, samples texts, and stories about health literacy.
http://www.idph.state.ia.us/health_literacy/default.asp
Health Literacy. American Medical Society Foundation.
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/about-ama/our-people/member-groups-sections/medical-student-section/community-service/health-literacy.shtml
The AMA has developed a toolkit, including a video. Materials are for physicians and medical students.
Health Literacy Consulting
http://www.healthliteracy.com/
Helen Osborne, M.Ed., OTR/L
31 Highland Street, Suite 201
Natick, MA 01760
Phone: 508-653-1199
Fax: 508-650-9492
Email: Helen@healthliteracy.com
Literacy Works creates online resources. The Links & Resources” seem useful and also include a glossary of literacy terms. http://literacyworks.org/lw/home.html?flash
Literacyworks also coordinates the Western/Pacific LINCS Regional Technology Center of the National Institute for Literacy. http://literacynet.org/lincs/
The Agency for Health Care Research and Quality
Health Literacy references and consumer education materials.
http://www.ahrq.gov/browse/hlitix.htm
The Joint Commission has several reports and projects related to communication and patient safety. http://www.jointcommission.org/PublicPolicy/health_literacy.htm
The National Institute for Literacy http://www.nifl.gov/ hosts the Health Literacy Discussion List. You can read postings without subscribing. http://www.nifl.gov/mailman/listinfo/Healthliteracy/
