Where else can you look to find out more about Health Literacy?

Videos

• This is bad enough (2 minutes)
• The language of health (2 minutes)
• What is health literacy? (2 minutes)
• Aha! Health literacy moments (6 minutes)
• Health literacy basics for health professionals (6 minutes)
• Health literacy in Scotland. Making it easier (15 minutes)
• Good communication techniques
• Teach back (12 minutes)
• Chunk and check (10 minutes)
• Creating Fairness at STSFT (3 minutes)

Useful Websites

Websites to help you use health literacy

• Health Literacy Place

• NHS Health Literacy

• Health Literacy 'How to' guide

• IHA - Health Literacy Solutions Center

• Health Literacy UK

• CDC Health Literacy

Websites to get pictures 

Check that the pictures you use are copyright free. These websites have some copyright free images:

Beautiful Free Images & Pictures | Unsplash

Discover and download free images - Pixabay

Free Stock Photos, Royalty Free Stock Images & Copyright Free Pictures · Pexels 

Nappy | Beautifully Diverse Stock Photos

ResourceSpace

Search media - Wikimedia Commons

Books

You can borrow the books below from the Trust Library Service.

• International handbook of health literacy edited by Orkan Okan et al (2019)

• Health literacy in context - settings, media and populations by Don Nutbeam, Diane Levin-Zemir and Gill Rowlands (2022)

• The art and science of patient education for health literacy by Melissa Stewart (2020)

• Writing health communication: an evidence-based guide by Charles Abraham and Marieke Kools (2012)

• The role of emotions in preventative health communication by Jessica Myrick (2015)

• Health literacy in primary care: a clinician's guide by Gloria Mayer and Michael Villaire (2007)

• Practical health promotion by John Hubley and June Copeman (2013)

• Health communication: a media and cultural studies approach by Belinda Lewis and Jeff Lewis (2015)

• Communicating health: strategies for health promotion edited by Nova Corcoran (2013)

• Health inequality: an introduction to theories, concepts and methods by Mel Bartley (2016)

• Tackling health inequalities through public health practice: theory to action by Richard Hofrichter and Rajiv Bhatia (2010)

• Health is made at home: hospitals are for repairs by Nigel Crisp (2020)

• Vital signs: the deadly cost of health inequalities by Lee Humber (2019)