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)
•  A Way with Words: Tips for Writing Easy-to-Understand Oral Health Materials (National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource Center)
  This handout provides ideas about words to use and to not use, tone, voice (active vs. passive), and layout. Effectively using headings and lists is also discussed, along with the best way to write sentences and paragraphs to make the text simple and clear. How to incorporate technical words, when necessary, is explained.
• 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)
• Oral Health Literacy is in Our Lane (Journal of Dental Hygiene, 2024)
• 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