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- Health Literacy Fact Sheets
A series of nine fact sheets from the Center for Health Care Strategies that define health literacy, describe its impact on health outcomes, provide strategies to prepare appropriate educational materials to assist low-literate consumers, and provide resources for additional health literacy information.
http://www.chcs.org/publications3960/publications_show.htm?doc_id=291711 - Quick Guide to Health Literacy
This quick and easy reference guide to health literacy is for government employees and others working in healthcare and public health. The first section contains a series of fact sheets on health literacy, including an overview of key concepts and definitions, and information on health literacy and health outcomes.
http://www.health.gov/communication/literacy/ quickguide/factsbasic.htm