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Health Literacy
This guide provides an overview on the topic of Health Literacy, resources and tools that can be used to assess, improve, or manage health literacy, and key scholarly sources in the areas of health literacy, patient education, and communication.
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Provides a searchable database of medical terms with the plain language, non-jargon equivalents. For example, hypertension is defined and given an alternate term of high blood pressure.