Trainings

Trainings

Online Health Literacy Trainings

Want to improve your health literacy knowledge and skills—without leaving home? There are a number of resources on online health literacy training. However, sorting through these resources can be time consuming.

To help, we’ve put together a collection of resources on this topic. The collection includes a brief description of each resource. We update the collection frequently, so please keep checking back.

Health Literacy 101

Michael Villaire, MSLM, President/CEO at the Institute for Healthcare Advancement presents an overview of the scope of low health literacy, including frequencies among the general population, general characteristics, abilities and challenges of persons with low health literacy, and the cost of poor health literacy (both in terms of human suffering and dollars). The video is a session recording from the 2021 IHA Health Literacy Conference. By clicking the link below, you will be leaving the Health Literacy Solutions Center and taken to an outside website.

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Health Literacy for Public Health Professionals
This introductory web-based course—available for free through CDC Train—aims to educate public health professionals (such as physicians, registered nurses, and dentists) about public health literacy and their role in providing health information and services and promoting public health literacy. This course provides continuing education and a certificate of completion. By clicking the link below, you will be leaving the Health Literacy Solutions Center and taken to an outside website.

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Fundamentals of Communicating Health Risk
This intermediate web-based course—available for free through CDC Train—aims to help public health communicators (such as educators, clinicians, and media specialists) improve or learn new communication skills for conveying everyday public health risks to the public. This course provides a certificate of completion. It does not provide continuing education. By clicking the link below, you will be leaving the Health Literacy Solutions Center and taken to an outside website.

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Effective Communication for Healthcare Teams: Addressing Health Literacy, Limited English Proficiency, and Cultural Differences
This web-based course—available for free through CDC Train—has 4 modules (some introductory, some intermediate). It aims to improve the quality of interaction between healthcare professionals and patients by providing an interactive guide to understanding health literacy, cultural competency, and limited English proficiency. This course provides continuing education and a certificate of completion. By clicking the link below, you will be leaving the Health Literacy Solutions Center and taken to an outside website.

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Always Use Teach-back Toolkit Interactive Learning Module
This learning module—part of the Always Use Teach-back Toolkit—is available for free through the Institute for Healthcare Advancement. It describes teach-back and demonstrates its effectiveness as a health literacy intervention to improve patient-provider communication by allowing healthcare providers to identify and practice key aspects of teach-back. This module does not provide continuing education or a certificate of completion. By clicking the link below, you will be leaving the Health Literacy Solutions Center and taken to an outside website.

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Health Literacy Specialist Certificate Program
Enhance your health literacy knowledge and ability to complete tasks in your work environment. This certificate program—available for a fee through the Institute for Healthcare Advancement—covers 7 key domains in the field of health literacy:

  • Communications
  • Education
  • Ethics
  • Organizational Systems and Policies
  • Public Health
  • Language, Culture, and Diversity
  • Community Engagement


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