The links
collected on
these pages offer an introduction to the concept of "Health Literacy,"
and represent the best efforts of various non-profit, government, and
educational agencies to raise awareness of the issue and promote best
practices
in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom.
Contact our librarian-researcher for more information, by e-mail or by phone at (514) 798-5601.
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Health Care Providers – Learning and Teaching Resources
Multilingual/Multicultural
Resources
Pictograms
[See
also Pictograms
on the Health and Literacy Issues
page]
Prenatal
and Parental
Education
Seniors [See also Seniors on the Health and Literacy Issues page]
Health
Promotion
Clearinghouse (Nova
Scotia)
www.hpclearinghouse.ca/resources/documents.asp
Nova
Scotia Department of Health
Promotion and Protection
www.gov.ns.ca/hpp/publichealth/default.htm
Simply
Health: A Series of Plain Language Documents,
Videos and Workshops on Preventitive Personal Health Care
www.vrri.org/Research/Health-and-Disabilities/Simply-Health-A-Series-of-Plain-Language-Documents-Videos-and-Workshops-on-Preventative-Personal.html
El
Paso Community College: Collaborative
Health Literacy Curriculum
www.worlded.org/us/health/docs/elpaso/index.htm#introduction
MLA
Health Information Literacy Toolkit
- Medical Library
Association
www.mlanet.org/resources/healthlit
Virginia
Adult Learning Resource Center Adult Education Toolkit
www.aelweb.vcu.edu/publications/healthlit
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www.vnhs.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=91&Itemid=98
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www.aancart.org/apicem/index.html
Breast and Cervical Cancer Curriculum
www.healthliteracy.worlded.org/heal/
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KidsHealth
- written
for parents, kids and teens
www.kidshealth.org/
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Learning
about Diabetes
www.learningaboutdiabetes.org
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Expecting
the
Best: An English as a
Second Language Health and Wellness Curriculum
www.expectingthebest.org/
Having a Medical
Examination: Filling in Forms and Answering Questions
about Personal Health (2009) – Centre for Canadian Language
Benchmarks
http://library.nald.ca/item/8382
National Center for ESL
Literacy
Education: Picture Stories for Adult ESL Health Literacy
www.cal.org/caela/esl_resources/health/
Health Care
Providers – Learning and Teaching
Resources for
AMA
Health Literacy: A
Manual for Clinicians
www.acibademsaglik.com/upload/pdf/literatur40.pdf
AMA
Health Literacy
Videos
- American Medical Association
www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/8035.html
Health Literacy Out Loud
http://www.healthliteracyoutloud.com/
Health
Literacy Provider Toolkit - The
Rhode Island
Health Literacy Project
www.rihlp.org/resources/index.cfm?id=32
MLA
Health Information
Literacy Toolkit [Resources
for Health and Information Professionals] -
Medical
Library Association
www.mlanet.org/resources/healthlit/#1
Uninformed
consent: What can happen when a patient
does not understand the information you have provided -
Educating Physicians
on
Controversies in Health
(EPoCH)
http://www.bigshouldersdubs.com/clients/AMA/Consent06.htm
Home
Safety Literacy
Project - Home
Safety Council
http://homesafetycouncil.org/AboutUs/HSLP/au_hslp_w001.asp
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Henry
the Hand:
Champion Handwasher
www.henrythehand.com/pages/content/index.html
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Education index
Navigating Mental
Health Services in Toronto (in several languages)
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Multilingual/Multicultural
Materials
Asian
Pacific Islander
Education Materials Tool
www.aancart.org/apicem/index.html
Healthy
Roads Media
– Topics
www.healthyroadsmedia.org/topics/
Kaleida
Health
Libraries - Culturally Specific Patient
Health Information for non-English speakers
http://library.kaleidahealth.org/resources/nonEnglish.asp
Multilingual
health
information from the Health &
Literacy Special Collection
http://healthliteracy.worlded.org/health-ed-3.htm
Navigating Mental
Health Services in Toronto (in several languages)
See
also Pictograms
on the Health and Literacy Issues
page
HELPix
Intervention - Langone Medical
Centre
http://helpix.med.nyu.edu/the-helpix-intervention/overview-helpix
MEPS Pictogram
Project -
International Pharmaceutical Federation
www.fip.org/www/?page=pp_sect_maepsm_pictogram
Pictograms Learning and Building Modules - Military and Emergency Pharmacy Section, Féderation Internationale Pharmaceutique
http://ca.geocities.com/sgrenier@rogers.com/WebSite/index.htm
Pictogrammes Posologiques
(Converter of verbal
instructions for taking medication into
pictograms)
http://www.vigilance.ca/picto/picto-fr.htm
Public Health Image Library (PHIL) – Centres for Disease Control and Prevention
http://www.fip.org/www/index.php
www.usp.org/audiences/consumers/pictograms/form.html
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Prenatal
and Parent Education/Information
KidsHealth
- written
for parents, kids and teens
www.kidshealth.org/
See also Seniors on Health and Literacy Issues page
Age Pages - National Institute on Aging
www.niapublications.org/shopdisplayproducts.asp?id=45&cat=All+Age+Pages
NIHSeniorHealth
- National Institute of Health
Sciences
http://nihseniorhealth.gov
Publications - National
Institute on Aging
www.nia.nih.gov/HealthInformation/Publications/
To learn more about available health literacy or plain language resources, contact The Centre for Literacy's librarian at:
Tel: (514) 798-5601