Health Literacy Links
Instructional Resources
Medical Information, including plain-language information
Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Healthcare Advocacy
Online Bibliography
Instructional Resources
- ESL Flow: Lessons for Teaching the Human Body
- ESL Flow: Food & Eating
- Breaking News English provides newspaper articles about health prepared for use in the classroom
- One Stop English provides intermediate and advanced lesson plans, focusing on vocabulary that relate to hospital
- SABES Health Page
- Educational Testing Service presents the Literacy and Health in America (2004) report by R. Rudd and I. Kirsch
- Harvard School of Public Health’s Health Literacy Studies
- LINCS Health & Literacy Special Collection
- Field Notes (SABES) Issue on Health & Literacy
- California Health Literacy Initiative
- Virginia Adult Education Health Literacy Toolkit
- El Paso Collaborative-Health Literacy Curriculum
- Health Literacy Resources & Programs for Adult ESL from the Center for Adult English Language Acquisition
- EL Civics Health Curriculum from the Charlottesville (VA) City Schools Adult Education Program
- Health and Safety Adult Learning Stories from the California Distance Learning Project
- Institute for Health Advancement sponsors an annual health literacy conference and publishes health literacy materials for students and instructors
Medical Information
- New York Immigration Coalition Provides frequently asked questions about immigrant eligibility for public health coverage & access to health care for uninsured immigrants
- Hite Site is an online directory of low cost health and social services
- New York Online Access to Health provides consumer health information in English and Spanish
- Health Literacy Network from British Columbia seeks to raise awareness of health literacy and share knowledge about accessible health literacy information
- Medline Plus Interactive Health Tutorials on a variety of diseases
- Ask Me 3 provides three questions patients should ask their doctors
- Healthy People 2010, the U.S. government’s national health focus
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides an alphabetical index of diseases and illnesses
- American Academy of Family Physicians provides an alphabetical listing of health conditions and a medical dictionary
- First Find offers health topics in plain language
- New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene provides community health profiles of NYC neighborhoods and health topics in alphabetical order
- Medical Online Dictionaries and Glossaries in many different languages
- Center for Health Care Strategies offers fact sheets and information on developing patient education material
- Food and Drug Administration Easy-to-Read Publications
Cross-Cultural Perspectives
- Diversity Rx offers information on meeting the health needs of multicultural populations
- Cross Cultural Health Care Program
Healthcare Advocacy
- National Health Law Program is dedicated to helping low income people deal the healthcare system
- New York City Managed Care Consumer Assistance
- New York-based Center for Medical Consumers
Online Bibliography
- Understanding Health Literacy and Its Barriers, a bibliography of selections 1998-2003