Health Communication & Information

AHRQ’s health literacy work spans from developing improvement tools, to designing professional training and education, to funding and synthesizing health literacy research.

This site is for health communicators, public health professionals, and community leaders who seek information and tools on health literacy research, practice, and evaluation.

Create, promote, and curate evidence-based health literacy and communication tools, practices, and research for health professionals. Use our resources to find effective strategies for sharing health information in ways that people can understand and use.

The Health Literacy Tool Shed is an online database of health literacy measures. The site contains information about measures, including their psychometric properties, based on a review of the peer-reviewed literature.

The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the primary federal agency for improving health care to people who are geographically isolated, economically or medically vulnerable.

The NIH “Clear Communication” initiative focuses on achieving two key objectives of health literacy: 1. Providing information in the form and with the content that is accessible to specific audiences based on cultural respect. 2. Incorporating plain language approaches and new technologies.

Topics covered: Definitions of Health Literacy; Health Literacy in a Cultural Context; Skills Needed for Health Literacy; Prevalence of Low Health Literacy; Economic Impact of Low Health Literacy; Initiatives to Improve Patient Communication; Research Findings on the Impact of Low Health Literacy; Role of the Consumer Health Librarian; References

Features information, continuing education opportunities, resources, and more for health and health care professionals to learn about culturally and linguistically appropriate services, or CLAS.

Overseen by the Federal Interagency Workgroup (FIW), every decade, the Healthy People initiative develops a new set of science-based, 10-year national objectives with the goal of improving the health of all Americans.

With RHI hub's Tools for Success, you'll find resources to help you: Grow funding; Improve programs; Promote successes to policymakers, funders, sponsors, and your community; research program potential; and reach development goals.

Here you’ll find resources that can support your ongoing or upcoming health communication planning, research activities, disease prevention efforts, and program development and evaluation.

They contain practical template materials (text, layouts, images, etc.), suggested key messages for specific priority audiences and ideas for awareness-raising activities on prevention and control of communicable diseases.

This is a free, online collection of public health tools that have been created and shared by members of the public health community. [You may be required to create a free account to access materials]

Health campaigns with subjects that span various disciplines are featured here.

The American Academy of Pediatrics offers videos, graphics, photos, policy and research, parent information, sample social media posts and other communications tools to help share messages on a variety of child health topics.

ANHCS is designed to capture national trends relating health behavior and behavioral intentions to media exposure, health knowledge and beliefs, and policy preferences and beliefs. It is the only survey that is continuously in the field with a nationally representative sample, and it is presently one of few surveys emphasizing health communication and its possible outcomes.

Mission: Convene the communication and media development, social and behavioural change community for more effective local, national, and international development action.