This 1 hour webinar introduces the concepts of health literacy and health communication, outlines components of clear health communication, and identifies online resources from the National Library of Medicine, government agencies and other recognized resources for health literacy and health communication.

Contents
0:00 Intro
4:35 Health Literacy
12:06 Health Communication
25:19 Readability and Plain Language
27:50 Suitability Assessment of Materials (SAM)
42:51 MedlinePlus.gov
50:12 EthnoMed.org
53:06 Indian Health Service ihs.gov


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SAM the Suitability Assessment of Materials: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/healthli...
SAM Example 1 Pertussis: What Parents Need to Know: https://www.health.state.mn.us/diseas...
SAM Example 2 Food safety: https://broward.floridahealth.gov/_fi...

Resources
The SHARE Approach: https://www.ahrq.gov/healthliteracy/...
AHRQ Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit: https://www.ahrq.gov/healthliteracy/...
Everyday Words for Public Health Communication (CDC): https://tools.cdc.gov/ewapi/termsearc...
Plain Language Thesaurus for Health Communications (CDC): https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/11500/
Plain Language Guidelines: https://plainlanguage.gov/guidelines/
MedlinePlus: https://medlineplus.gov/
EthnoMed: https://ethnomed.org/
Indian Health Service: https://www.ihs.gov/

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