Health Literacy

• Frameworks Institute
  • Oral Health
  • Unlocking the Door to New Thinking: Frames for Advancing Oral Health Reform (2017)
  • It’s All Connected Infographic
  • Oral Health Reframe Cards
• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) – Health Literacy
  • Health Literacy Improvement Tools
  • Health Literacy Professional Education and Training
  • Health Literacy Publications
  • Patient Education and Engagement
  • The Patient Education Materials Assessment Tool (PEMAT)
• Health Literacy (Health.gov)
• Health Literacy (NIH)
• Health Literacy (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality)
• Health Literacy Basics (CDC)
• Horowitz Center for Health Literacy (University of Maryland School of Public Health)
• Integrating Oral and General Health Through Health Literacy Practices: Proceedings of a Workshop (National Academy of Sciences, 2019)
• National Action Plan to Improve Health Literacy (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2010)
• Plain Language for Public Health (The Public Health Communications Collaborative)
• Public Health Learning Module, “Using Healthy People 2020 to Improve Population Health: Oral Health Across the Lifespan” (Association for Prevention Teaching and Research, 2014)
• Report: Oral Health Literacy: Workshop Summary (Institute of Medicine, 2013)
• Updating Health Literacy for Healthy People 2030: Defining Its Importance for a New Decade in Public Health (Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 2021)
• What Is Health Literacy? (CDC)

• Personal health literacy is the degree to which individuals have the ability to find, understand, and use information and services to inform health-related decisions and actions for themselves and others.
• Organizational health literacy is the degree to which organizations equitably enable individuals to find, understand, and use information and services to inform health-related decisions and actions for themselves and others.

— https://www.cdc.gov/healthliteracy/learn/index.html