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Materials

This section provides resources and guidance for addressing health literacy in the production of health materials. These pages address how to assess, develop, and rigorously pilot health materials, as well as how to develop materials through participatory processes.

  • Assessing Materials
  • Developing Materials
  • Rigorous Piloting of Materials (currently being reformulated) 
  • Participatory Materials Development
  • Two Classics:
    • Doak, Doak and Root:  Teaching Patients with Low Literacy Skills, Second Edition
    • The National Cancer Institute: Making Health Communication Programs Work

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