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.
Selected
Bibliographies on Health
and Literacy
Current
Bibliographies in Medicine 2004-1: Understanding Health Literacy and
its
Barriers
January 1998 - November
2003 plus selected earlier
and later citations - National Institutes
of Health. Public Health Service
www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/cbm/healthliteracybarriers.html
Health,
Communication and Literacy: An Annotated Bibliography - The Centre for
Literacy, 1998
www.centreforliteracy.qc.ca/publications/Hclbibli/cover.htm
Health
Literacy Compendium: An Annotated Bibliography of Print and Web-based
Resources
for Use With Limited Literacy Adults - World Education, 1999
www.worlded.org/us/health/docs/comp/index.html
Health
Literacy Resource List for Educators - Food and
Nutrition Information Center, 2007
www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/pubs/bibs/edu/health_literacy.pdf
Health Literacy Resources – VA Library Network
http://www1.va.gov/valnet/docs/HealthLiteracyResources.pdf.