Health Literacy Resources
The LAC’s NYC Health Literacy Initiative offers a variety of materials to help adult education practitioners and healthcare providers understand and work to improve health literacy.
- Definition of health literacy
- The extent and effects of low health literacy
- Professional development framework and sample lesson plans
- Health and Hospitals Corporation’s confidentiality policy for illegal immigrants: Confidentiality letter and lesson plan
- Healthy Relationships A Guide to Forming Partnerships between Health Care Providers and Adult Education Programs (PDF, 96 K)
- Literacy Harvest’s Health Literacy issue, with articles by literacy and healthcare practitioners and researchers on a variety of health literacy topics.
- Free and low-cost dental and vision care in New York City
- Links to health literacy information on the web