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Principles for Clear Health Communication


Description

This handbook can be used to help create high-quality patient education materials that are easy to read and understand and can facilitate provider/patient communication.

Topics covered include:
  • The health literacy problem
  • Understanding reading skills and barriers to health literacy
  • Planning consumer pieces to meet goals of clear health communication
  • The principles
  • Using readability formulas
Links to the Tool:
This tool is available at: http://www.pfizerhealthliteracy.com/asset/pdf/PfizerPrinciples.pdf (If you don't have the software to open this PDF, download free Adobe Acrobat Reader® software External Web Site Policy.)

Developer

Pfizer Health Literacy Initiative

Funding Sources

Pfizer, Inc.


QualityTool Topic

Quality improvement strategies


History

  • Release Date: 08/2004
  • Original Summary: 01/2009
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Last updated: March 14, 2012.