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The Center for Health Care Strategies has developed tools designed to assist the health care system in addressing the issue of health literacy in every day practice. http://www.chcs.org.

The National Library of Medicine has information about strategies, programs, and tactics to address health literacy. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/archive//20061214/pubs/cbm/hliteracy.html.

The Health Literacy Study at the Harvard School of Public Health contains health literacy information for researchers and practitioners in public health, adult education, and medical fields. http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/healthliteracy/literature.html.

The Institute for Healthcare Advancement has started efforts to combat low literacy. http://www.iha4health.org/default.aspx/MenuItemID/184/MenuGroup/_Home.htm.

Reach Out and Read has information about the effects of pediatric literacy promotion on parents' attitudes toward reading aloud and related practices (eg, frequency of reading aloud, book ownership, library use). http://www.reachoutandread.org/about_research.html

The Health of Florida's Children and Youth: An Atlas of Key Status Indicators, Goals and Objectives for Strategic Planning was designed to be an internet document used as a tool for strategic planning in Florida.
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Rudd RE. "Health and Literacy: A Maturing Partnership." Focus on Basics; 5.

Kickbusch IS. "Health Literacy: Addressing the Health and Education Divide." Health Promotion International, 2001; 16.

D'Amico, D., et. al. "Adult Literacy & Health Vision and Action Agenda (2001)

Mendelsohn, A., et. al. The Impact of a Clinic-Based Literacy Intervention on Language Development in Inner-City Preschool Children

High, P., et. al. Literacy Promotion in Primary Care Pediatrics: Can We Make a Difference. Pediatrics 2000 105:4.

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