Healthcare Professionals

Training

The Health Literacy San Diego Taskforce has planned for the development of a training program that will result in personnel and practitioners of healthcare agencies learning more about serving patients whose quality of care and health outcomes might be affected by communication challenges related to language differences, literacy abilities, and cultural differences. > Click to continue reading about Training

 

Readability Tools

Readability relates to the re-writing or production of literature that matches the literacy abilities of adults.  Readability issues should be addressed at all age levels.  However, for our purposes here, especially given the importance of readability as relates to medical prescriptions, written doctors' orders, directions to healthcare facilities, and general navigation... > Click to continue reading about Readability

 

Patient Information

This page attempts to provide health literacy friendly patient information on health topics.  If you know of a person who might have low literacy, visit the literacy programs listing page. > Click to read about Patient Information