Health literacy is a patients understanding and use of the health information they receive. Over 90 million American adults struggle with limited health literacy, and this puts their lives at risk. Health literacy is the # 1 indicator of a person's health status.

However, there is hope. Together, we can change how we create, communicate, and understand health information. Our mission is to comprehensively improve health communication. Please use the resources on this website to help you in your efforts for improving health communication. Together, we can not only improve health communication, but also improve the lives of patients and the state of our healthcare system.