The following list of organizations that have produced Patient Education tools may be appropriate for your patient population or useful as a starting point for developing health center specific patient education materials. A few of the tools are dated; however, the content may be appropriate for common ailments in which care has stayed consistent.
Please click or scroll down for:
Multi-Lingual Materials
English Only Materials
Developing/Evaluating Patient Education Tools
American Cancer Society
Asian Pacific Islander Cancer Education Materials Tool
Searchable online database of Asian language cancer materials
www.cancer.org/apicem
Environmental Protection Agency
"El medio ambiente y su salud"
Spanish language information to educate Hispanics, researchers, and health care providers on how environmental health issues (including asthma, mold, carbon monoxide, and pesticides) affect the different Hispanic communities
www.epa.gov/espanol/saludhispana/index.htm
EthnoMed
Contains information about cultural beliefs, medical issues and other related issues pertinent to the health care of recent immigrants to the US, many of whom are refugees fleeing war-torn parts of the world; for patient education materials, click on the Patient Education button
http://ethnomed.org/ethnomed/index.html
Healthfinder
Online health information for consumers in English and Spanish
www.healthfinder.gov/
Migrant Clinicians Network: Aunque Cerca...Sano Comic Book
Free 16-page, Spanish language comic book for migrant and seasonal farmworker families on risks to pesticide exposure
www.migrantclinician.org/_resources/aunque_comic_book.pdf
National Institute on Aging (NIA)
Free Spanish language fact sheets on healthy aging
www.niapublications.org/shopdisplayproducts.asp?id=8&cat=Spanish+Language+Materials
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
A-Z health topics in the areas of child/teen, men's, women's, senior's, minority, and wellness and lifestyle.
For English: http://health.nih.gov
For Spanish: www.healthfinder.gov/espanol/
New York Online Access to Health
Consumer health information via links; in English and Spanish
www.noah-health.org/
Pregnancy Foresight Project
Prenatal brochure that addresses topics such as timing of pregnancy, issues to discuss with a doctor when considering pregnancy, and other important pre-pregnancy issues; available in English, Spanish, Ukrainian, Somali, Russian, Korean, Chinese, and Vietnamese
www.swedishmedical.org/PregnancyForesight/Home.html
University of Utah Health Sciences Center
Outlines resources health educators can use to develop written materials for patients and their families; several hundred patient education materials are cataloged, including materials in Spanish
www.med.utah.edu/pated/
Bright Futures
Guidelines, strategies, and tools that are theory-based, evidence-driven, and systems-oriented that can be used to improve the health and well-being of children
http://brightfutures.aap.org/web/
MerckSource: Health Information
Comprehensive health information for patients to use online
www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns_home.jsp
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
"Your Guide to Healthy Sleep" for patients and public, available in downloadable format or as printed copy
www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/sleep/healthy_sleep.htm
Nexium
Online customized patient education pages on acid reflux disease that can be printed or emailed to your patients
www.nexium-us.com/patient/patient.asp
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
A-Z health education tools; also check out the UPMC Health Tools and Medicine Cabinet
http://patienteducation.upmc.com/
Virtual Hospital University of Iowa Health Care
A-Z health topics
www.vh.org/navigation/vh/topics/adult_patient_index.html
California Family Health Council, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Division
Develops health education programs and multi-cultural patient education materials
www.epahealth.org/
Center for Health Care Strategies
For health literacy resources, go to the main website and search using this term: health literacy fact sheets
www.chcs.org
Health Disparities Collaboratives Library, Health Literacy/Limited Literacy
Health Literacy Resources
www.healthdisparities.net/hdc/html/library.aspx?folderId=3-3-2005.Health%20Literacy/Limited%20Literacy.8044
Health Literacy Consulting
Provides services to health professionals on health literacy and communication
www.healthliteracy.com
Patient Education Materials: An Author’s Guide
Provides resources for all steps of creating patient education materials
www.med.utah.edu/pated/authors/
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