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• What is Health Literacy?

  An overview of health literacy and its place in adult education. Includes examples of health literacy needs, and ideas for forming community collaborations with health entities.

• Health Literacy Tutorial

  Learn about the challenges associated with low health literacy, meet some of the new health literacy practitioners in the field, hear about successful strategies and practices, and apply what you have learned to a challenging health literacy scenario. Download text.

• Virginia Adult Education Health Literacy Toolkit

  This toolkit is a resource to help adult educators better understand health literacy and support creative approaches to increasing students' health literacy skills as they engage in adult literacy instruction.

• Healthy People 2010 (Objective 11.2)

  Defines and identifies health literacy as a barrier to good health and includes specific and measurable health literacy objectives.