Health Literacy: Online Resources for Journalists
As an intriguing community forum on health literacy gets underway at USC today, check out these great resources for learning about the subject provided by one of the forum's organizers, Ellen Iverson, an assistant pediatrics at the USC Keck School of Medicine and deputy director of the Community, Health Outcomes, and Intervention Research Program at the Saban Research Institute at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles.
You can follow the forum on Twitter using the hashtag #HealthLitLA, and we'll have more coverage later today.
General Health Literacy Resources
U.S. Centers for Disease Control offers health literacy online training.
E-patients.net, a project of the Society of Participatory Medicine
Harvard School of Public Health's program in Health Literacy Studies
Institute for Health Care Advancement
Institute of Medicine's health literacy page
The Joint Commission (Improving Health Literacy report)
National Center for the Study of Adult learning and Literacy
Partnership for Clear Health Communication
PEW Internet and American Life Project
U.S. Government Quick Guide to Health Literacy
US Department of Health and Human Services' health literacy page
Resources for Cultural Competency and Diversity in Health Care
California Health Care Foundation
The Cross Cultural Health Care Program
EthnoMed (ethnic medicine guide)
Hablamos Juntos Resource Center
Institute for Diversity in Health Management
National Colloquium on African American Health
National Council on Interpreting in Health Care
National Medical Association (Cultural Competence Primer)
Office of Minority Health Resource Center
The Park Ridge Center for the Study of Health, Faith and Ethics