Discipline-Specific Information Literacy
Health Literacy
These resources provide information for professionals in health and education who are interested in health literacy.
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Health Literacy: A prescription to end confusion (Report Brief)
The report recommends that health care systems should develop and support programs to reduce the negative effects of limited health literacy. -
Health Literacy beyond Basic Skills
This report discusses whether people with higher educational attainment may have a health advantage due increased health literacy skills. -
Health Literacy Studies
The website is designed for professionals in health and education who are interested in health literacy; provides access to information such as reports, Powerpoint presentations, and innovative curricula. -
Information Literacy and Consumer Health
White Paper prepared for UNESCO, the U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, and the National Forum on Information Literacy. In this paper, the author discusses the intersection of information literacy and consumer health, defines key issues, and presents existing opportunities for development and new initiatives for the future intersection of IL and consumer health. -
Library Outreach: Overcoming Health Literacy Challenges
Ruth Parker and Gary L. Kreps contend that there is a great deal that can be done throughout the modern health care system to address problems of health literacy by improving information access, processing, and understanding. -
Promoting Health Information Literacy: Collaborative Opportunities for Teaching and Academic Librarian Faculty
This paper explores the potential areas for collaboration, describes empirical collaborative projects between these two parties in enhancing the information literacy of public health discipline in a major health science center, and discusses the lessons learned, including the opportunities and challenges associated with the collaboration. -
The National Literacy and Health Program
This program is developed by the Canadian Public Health Association’s (CPHA) National Literacy and Health Program (NLHP) to promote awareness among health professionals of the links between literacy and health.