A collection of evidence-based findings of the Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF), intended to help users select interventions to improve health and prevent disease in your community.
Resources to teach and learn digital literacy skills needed to access and evaluate health information online and to participate in the All of Us Research Program (All of Us). A collaboration between NNLM, All of Us, Public Library Association, and Wisconsin Health Literacy
Interactive, searchable, national map of health literacy estimates for neighborhoods throughout the United States. The map was developed by Dr. Gang Fang and Dr. Stacy Bailey of UNC, Chapel Hill.
Project SHARE (Student Health Advocates Redefining Empowerment) is a curriculum that aims to build high school students' skills to reduce health disparities at the personal, family and community level. The curriculum aligns with national standards and is comprised of six modules. Each module contains up to five lessons and is accompanied by experiential learning activities. Individual lessons and modules may be used in a series or may stand alone. You are encouraged to modify the basic lessons to meet the needs of your communities.
A free readability formula tool will analyze your text and output the results based on several readability formulas and help determine the grade level for your text. The Flesch Reading Ease, the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Leve, the Fog Scale (Gunning FOG Formula), the SMOG Index, the Coleman-Liau Index, Automated Readability Index, and Linsear Write Formula
from AHRQ. The Patient Education Materials Assessment Tool (PEMAT) is a systematic method to evaluate and compare the understandability and actionability of patient education materials. It is designed as a guide to help determine whether patients will be able to understand and act on information. Separate tools are available for use with print and audiovisual materials.
