Make Your Research Count: Learning from Health Systems What Is Useful and What They Need Speakers: Cindy Brach Carolyn Cutilli Karen Komondor Tom Bauer Jane Sims Greg O'Neill Investment in health literacy system capacity ensures an imperative and systemic effort and...
The CDC developed this webpage. The webpage tells how to create a plan to improve organizational health literacy. #PlanningOrganizationalHealthLiteracy
This 2017 article by Cindy Brach provides an overview of organizational health literacy. It also shares the experiences of three organizations that worked to become health literate. #PlanningOrganizationalHealthLiteracy #AssessingOrganizationalHealthLiteracy
Angela Brega et al. developed this 2015 toolkit for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Tool 2: Create a Health Literacy Improvement Plan will guide you in assessing your practice and identifying areas to target in your quality improvement efforts. #Assessing Organizational...
The CDC developed this workbook to help healthcare organizations create a plan to change organizational and professional practices to improve health literacy. #PlanningOrganizationalHealthLiteracy
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released this plan in 2010. The plan seeks to engage organizations, professionals, policymakers, communities, individuals, and families in a linked, multi-sector effort to improve health literacy. It includes seven broad goals with multiple high...
Mary Ann Abrams and colleagues wrote this 2014 guidebook for Unity Point Health and Health Literacy Iowa. The guidebook aims to help healthcare organizations become more health literate. It discusses how to use the Model for Improvement (using Plan-Do-Study-Act cycles) toward this end. #Become...
Rima Rudd developed this 2006 guide for the National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy and the Harvard School of Public Health’s Health and Adult Literacy and Learning Initiative. The guide outlines an approach for assessing organizational health literacy and includes needs...
This influential 2012 discussion paper by Cindy Brach et al. provides a useful framework for assessing organizational health literacy. Organizations can use the 10 overarching attributes to focus their health literacy efforts, and then assess and monitor their progress over time. Considering all...