This site is a one-stop-shop for health professionals and Spanish language experts, who work with health information, to learn about health literacy standards and tools that can help them improve written health resources.
The Institute of Medicine defines health literacy as “the degree to which individuals can obtain, process, and understand the basic information and services they need to make appropriate health decisions.”
This website is created for educational purposes as part of COMHLTH 573 Communicating Health in a Digital Landscape at Washington State University. Any reference in this website to any people, organizations, activities, products, or services related to such people or organizations, or any linkages from this site to the site of another party, do not constitute or imply the endorsement, recommendation, or favoring from Washington State University.
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