Health
Literacy
Links 
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.
Back
to main
Health Literacy portal
Research
Health
Literacy in Canada: Initial Results from the International Adult
Literacy and
Skills Survey
- Canadian Centre for Learning
http://www.ccl-cca.ca/CCL/Newsroom/Releases/20070919ReleaseHealthLiteracy.htm?Language=EN
Health
Literacy in Rural Nova Scotia Research Project - St. Francis Xavier
University
with community health and literacy organizations in northeastern Nova
Scotia
www.nald.ca/healthliteracystfx/
Learning
a
Living: First Results of the Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey
www.nald.ca/fulltext/learnliv/cover.htm
Chapter
11 of the report presents the latest findings on the links between
the literacy and health
of Canadians
Se
Adults with Basic and
Below
Basic Literacy Levels: Findings from NAAL and Implications for Practice (webcast)
www.nifl.gov/nifl/webcasts/NAALfindings/webcast081506.html
The
Health
Literacy of America's Adults: Results from the 2003 National Assessment
of
Adult Literacy-
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2006483
Healthy
People 2010
[report, Chapter 11: Health Communication] - Office of Disease
Prevention and Health
Promotion
www.healthypeople.gov/document/HTML/Volume1/11HealthCom.htm
Literacy
and
Health Outcomes [report] - Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality, 2005
www.ahrq.gov/clinic/epcsums/litsum.htm
“What did the Doctor say?”: Improving
health literacy to protect patient safety (2007)- The Joint
Commission
www.jointcommission.org/newsroom/presskits/health_literacy/