Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ)

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)

Consumer Health: Health Literacy

Food and Drug Administration: Medicines in My Home (FDA)

Federal Interagency Working Group on Limited English Proficiency

Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)

• Cultural Competence Resources for Health Care Providers
• Health Literacy

Healthfinder.gov

MedlinePlus:

• Easy-to-Read
• Health Information in Multiple Languages
• Health Literacy

National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA): Easy-to-Read Drug Facts

National Institutes of Health (NIH): Clear Communication: An NIH Health Literacy Initiative

National Library of Medicine (NLM) Current Bibliographies in Medicine 2004-1. Understanding Health Literacy and Its Barriers

Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP)

• Health Literacy Improvement
• Health Literacy Online Guide

Office of Minority Health (OMH) the Center for Linguistic and Cultural Competence in Health Care

Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce Healthy People 2010. Goal 11: Health Communication

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

• Improvement of Health Literacy: In Communicating Health: Priorities and Strategies for Progress (2003)
• Scope of the Problem: Health Literacy: In Prevention: A Blueprint for Action (2004)