Health Literacy & Patient Education

Literacy skills are a stronger predictor of an individual's health status than age, income, employment status, education level or racial/ethnic group. This guide serves as an information and resource hub.

• CDC | Health Literacy

     Improving access to healthcare and providing literacy and communication tools for clinicians.

• Healthy People 2030 

            Learn how to navigate the evidence-based literature for healthcare, public health, and research.

Online Resources

• Introduction to Health Literacy.

  The National Library of Medicine Guide.

• Medical Library Association | Top Health Websites

  The Consumer and Patient Health Information Services Caucus (CAPHIS) of MLA evaluates websites based on the following criteria: credibility, sponsorship/authorship, content, audience, currency (timeliness), disclosure, purpose, links, design, interactivity, and disclaimers.

• National Cancer Institute - What is Cancer? Video Series

  This video series by the National Cancer Institute breaks these concepts down into bite-sized, sharable animations.

• Public Health Resources [NNLM]

        A research guide that includes links to evidence-based resources and statistics.