Australia 

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• Navigating Health: The role of health literacy

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• National Statement on Health Literacy: Taking action to improve safety and quality 
   

• Evaluation of an Australian health literacy training program for socially disadvantaged adults attending basic education classes: study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial 

Cancer 

• Skills for life survey, BIS (2011) ​

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• The contribution of basic skills to health related outcomes during adulthood: evidence from the BCS70 

Child and adolescent health  

• Effects of evidence-based strategies to reduce the socioeconomic gradient of uptake in the english NHS bowel cancer screening programme (ASCEND): four cluster randomised trials 

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• How do people interpret information about colorectal cancer screening: observations from a think-aloud study 

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• Understanding, evidencing, and promomting adolescent well-being: An emerging agenda for schools 
   

• An evaluation of the HEY! programme 

Developing Countries 

• Health Literacy Toolkit for low and middle income countries

Chronic disease 

Europe 

• Health literacy and chronic disease management: drawing from expert knowledge to set an agenda 

General Practice 

• AHRQ Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit: 2nd edition 
   

• Chunk and Check
   

• Teach back 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
   

Global Health 

GP 

• AHRQ Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit: 2nd edition 
   

• Chunk and Check
   

• Teach back 

• The European Health Literacy Project (HLS-EU). Final Report Executive Summary (D17) 
   

• The European Health Literacy Survey 
   

• User testing in developing patient medication in Europe
   

• Health Literacy Europe 

Health Economics 

• The costs of limited health literacy: a systematic review 

Health care practitioner 

• AHRQ Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit: 2nd edition 
   

• Chunk and check 
   

• Teach Back 
   

Health inequalities 

• The costs of limited health literacy: a systematic review 

Improving practice 

Health promotions 

• Health literacy as a public health goal: a challenge for contemporary health education and communication strategies into the 21st century 
   

• World Health Organisation. (n.d.) 7th Global Conference on Health Promotion: Track 2: Health Literacy and health behaviour

Literacy 

• AHRQ Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit: 2nd edition 
   

• Chunk and check 
   

• Teach Back 
  
   

Long term illness 

• Health literacy and chronic disease management: drawing from expert knowledge to set an agenda 

• 9th Global conference on Health Promotion, Shanghai 2016 Policy brief 4: Health Literacy 
   

• Adult literacy and numeracy, social capital, learner identities and self-confidence
   

• Skills for life survey, BIS (2011)
   

• Understanding the role of literacy in public health 

Medication 

Numeracy 

• 9th Global conference on Health Promotion, Shanghai 2016 Policy brief 4: Health Literacy
   

• Adult literacy and numeracy, social capital, learner identities and self-confidence 
   

• Does Numeracy Matter More?
   

• Skills for life survey, BIS (2011)
   

• Three-quarters of adults can't work out how much sugar they're meant to consume 

• User testing in developing patient medication in Europe 
   

• Producing good medicines information 

Plain english 

• Drivel Defence 
   

• A-Z of alternative words
   

• Best practice guidance on patient information leaflets 
   

• How to write in plain english 
   

• How to write medical information in plain english

Public Health 

Readability 

• Health literacy as a public health goal: a challenge for contemporary health education and communication strategies into the 21st century 

• Drivel Defence 
   

• SMOG Calculator 
   

• Skilled for Health

Social Capital 

Systematic Review 

• 9th Global conference on Health Promotion, Shanghai 2016 Policy brief 4: Health Literacy

• Health Literacy Interventions and Outcomes: An updated Systematic Review
   

• Literacy and Health Outcomes: A systematic review of the literature 

USA

• Clear communication (US)
   

• A healthy understanding (US)
   

• Health Literacy Website (US)
   

• Addressing low health literacy in North Carolina (August 2007)