Effective Health Communication and Health Literacy

How are health communication and health literacy connected? How can you be more effective in providing health information to consumers, patients, clients, library patrons and your community? These materials from a Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM) webinar introduces the concepts of health literacy and health communication, outlines components of clear health communication, and identifies online resources from the National Library of Medicine (NLM), government agencies and other recognized resources for health literacy and health communication. 

This resource is supported by the National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Institutes of Health (NIH) under cooperative agreement number UG4LM013732 with the University of Utah’s Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.

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