Health Literacy: Practical Tools to Make Information More Equitable

Harvard HSPH

Health literacy is a powerful tool for health equity. This course focuses primarily on information assessment and health literacy best practice; everyone in public health has a responsibility to ensure that information is accessible, understandable, and usable. You will learn best practices for assessing health (e.g., asthma) and health-related (e.g., housing) information (e.g., print, video, website). You will learn about information assessment tools and how to analyze texts and tasks. After…