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July 2010

Design Easy-to-Use Health Web Sites

More people are going online for health information than ever before. And more health information and services are moving to the Web. At the same time, we know that 9 out of 10 adults in the United States have limited health literacy skills.
So how do we help people with limited health literacy skills find and [...]

“Health literacy is needed to make health reform a reality” – Kathleen Sebelius

The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released The National Plan to Improve Health Literacy – with support from Sebelius and others who see the relationship between improving health literacy and increasing access to cost-effective, high-quality health care.
The action plan contains seven goals, each with specific strategies for different sectors of the [...]