MEDLINE/PubMed Search and Health Literacy Information Resources

Health Literacy Search

The MEDLINE/PubMed health literacy search retrieves citations to English language journal literature. See details of the search strategy below.

Search Details

The Reference and Web Services Section of the National Library of Medicine created and maintains this health literacy search strategy.

Health Literacy Information Resources

• Clear Communication: an NIH Health Literacy Initiative (National Institutes of Health)
  http://www.nih.gov/icd/od/ocpl/resources/improvinghealthliteracy.htm
  Health Literacy Research Supported by the NIH
  http://www.nih.gov/icd/od/ocpl/resources/healthliteracyresearch.htm
  
  
• Current Bibliographies in Medicine 2000-1: Health Literacy (National Library of Medicine)
  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/archive//20061214/pubs/cbm/hliteracy.html
  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/archive//20061214/pubs/cbm/hliteracy.pdf
  
  
• Current Bibliographies in Medicine 2004-1: Understanding Health Literacy and its Barriers (National Library of Medicine)
  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/cbm/healthliteracybarriers.html
  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/cbm/healthliteracybarriers.pdf
  
  
• Proceedings of the Surgeon General's Workshop on Improving Health Literacy,September 7, 2006, NIH, Bethesda, MD
  http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/topics/healthliteracy/toc.htm
  
  
• HRSA Health Literacy (Health Resources & Services Administration)
  http://www.hrsa.gov/healthliteracy/
  
  
• Health Literacy & Patient Safety (The Joint Commission)
  http://www.jointcommission.org/publicpolicy/health_literacy
  
  
• Health Literacy (American Medical Association Foundation)
  http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/8115.html
  
  
• Health Literacy (Institute of Medicine of the National Academies)
  http://www.iom.edu/?id=3827
  IOM Roundtables on Health Literacy
  http://www.iom.edu/CMS/3793/31487.aspx
  
  
• Health Literacy Improvement (Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion)
  http://www.health.gov/communication/literacy/
  
  
• Health Literacy Resources (American College of Physicians Foundation)
  http://foundation.acponline.org/hl/hlresources.htm
  
  
• National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL) (Institute of Educational Sciences, U.S. Department of Education)
  http://nces.ed.gov/NAAL/health.asp
  
  
• PlainLanguage.gov Health Literacy
  http://www.plainlanguage.gov/populartopics/health_literacy/
  
  
• Health Literacy: Tools for Improving Health Communications Conference Virtual Tool Kit (Public Health Information Partners)
  http://library.nymc.edu/PHInformatics/hltoolkit.cfm
  
  
• Health Literacy: Strategies for Patient Care and Teaching (SGIM National Meeting Workshop, April 27, 2007)
  http://www.sgim.org/AM06/handouts/IF19.pdf
  
  
• Teaching Patients with Low Literacy Skills, 2nd Ed. (Doak, Doak & Root)
  http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/healthliteracy/doak.html
  
  
• The Health Literacy Environment of Hospitals and Health Centers (The National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy)
  http://www.ncsall.net/?id=1163
  
  
• Building a Health Literacy Curriculum (University of Virginia Health System)
  http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/internet/som-hlc/
  
  
• Barrett SE, Puryear JS, Westpheling K. Health Literacy Practices in Primary Care Settings: Examples From the Field. [Internet]. New York: The Commonwealth Fund; 2008 Jan [cited 2008 Jan 11]. 36 p. Available from:
  http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/publications_show.htm?doc_id=645961