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This guide and checklist for developers and purchasers of health information (IT) provides structure, strategies, and other resources for the development of accessible health IT products.

The Beginnings Guides offer prenatal and parent education materials that are easy-to-read and easy-to-understand.

This set of clinician tools helps physicians quickly assess the health literacy of patients and how much they understand information to make appropriate health decisions.

This toolkit offers resources to help physicians/providers and their staffs address communication challenges that may result from patients’ literacy levels or language/cultural barriers. This edition focuses on topics of health literacy, advance directives, and cultural competency.

This protocol from the Improving Diabetes Efforts Across Language and Literacy (IDEALL) Health Project helps facilitators implement the Automated Telephone Diabetes Management (ATDM) support component. The tool is used for the two forms of support—automated telephone diabetes management and group medical visits—which were implemented for a group of patients with poor control of type 2 diabetes.

These health education resources from the Patient Education Institute use animated graphics to explain a procedure or condition in easy-to-read language.

Medical professionals can use this sample consent form to educate patients about a procedure or process and document patient consent.

This toolkit presents information about chronic dry eye.

Focused on Latinos, this blueprint outlines ways to create and expand healthy living programs to improve community health through both nutrition and physical activity.

This tool offers suggestions to help consumers stay safe during the holiday season.