Health Literacy

This website contains resources from the CDC and other public and private resources to assist in the development of health communication and social marketing campaigns and programs.

Tools and guides are provided here to develop effective health information both online and in print.

From the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, this how-to-guide focuss on writing and designing easy-to-use health websites.

Produced by the U.S. National Institutes of Health. It is designed to help health communicators. Helpful links to related materials are included.

From the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, this guide contains an overview of health literacy, strategies for improving health literacy as well as health literacy related resources.

From the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), this guide helps to determine whether patients can understand and act on patient education materials. By selecting health materials that score better on the PEMAT, you can better ensure that people of various levels of health literacy will be able to process and explain key messages. Tools are available for use with both print and audiovisual materials.