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This page provides resources for educational and community health literacy activities.

CDC Health Literacy. This site provides information and tools to improve health literacy and public health. These resources are for all organizations that interact and communicate with people about health, including public health departments, healthcare providers and facilities, health plans, government agencies, non-profit/community and advocacy organizations, childcare and schools, the media, and health-related industries.

National Action Plan to Improve Health Literacy (2010) seeks to engage organizations, professionals, policymakers, communities, individuals, and families in a linked, multi-sector effort to improve health literacy. The plan includes seven broad goals with multiple high level strategies for various stakeholders and provides a focal point for the field.

This page provides tools and resources for researching and evaluating health literacy practice.

The disciplines of communication and social marketing, as well as translational research, could contribute significantly to more effective dissemination.

This page provides tools and resources for researching and evaluating health literacy practice.

Visuals, such as pictures, drawings, charts, graphs and diagrams, can be effective tools for communicating health information.

This page provides tools and resources for researching and evaluating health literacy practice.

Testing messages and materials throughout the development process is important to figure out what is most appealing, understandable, and useful to that audience.

CDC works 24/7 saving lives, protecting people from health threats, and saving money to have a more secure nation. A US federal agency, CDC helps make the healthy choice the easy choice by putting science and prevention into action. CDC works to help people live longer, healthier and more productive lives.