Videos on Health Literacy Or Patient Education
5 Things to Know About Health Literacy (Video, 2:20)
Department of Health & Human Services 2022
Are you confused about health information? You are not alone (Video, 12:21)
Lisa Fitzpatrick | TEDxMidAtlantic 2016
Children's Hospital of Wisconsin
Series of short videos that illustrate how difficult the healthcare system can be for people to understand, navigate, and use health information and services when they are experiencing stressful situations.
DoctorSpeak: Health Literacy and the Healthcare Professional (Video, 1:02:44)
University of Minnesota Health Sciences Libraries: Overview of what is health literacy, why it is important, the risks of low health literacy, how to recognize low health literacy, best practices for communicating with patients and health literacy resources. Attachments include a Medical Jargon Exercise, Plain Language Checklist for Written Materials, Health Literacy Resource List and list of references consulted for the presentation. 2021
Health Literacy: A prescription to End Confusion (Video, 11:02)
Academy for Educational Development for the Institute of Medicine. 2012
Health Literacy: A Prescription to End Confusion (Video, 3:27)
NASEM Health & Medicine Division. 2012
Health Literacy and Cultural Competency. (Video, 3:20)
PFontJr. 2016
Health Literacy Basics for Health Professionals (Video, 6:10)
Vancouver Coastal Health, the BC College of Family Physicians and the BC Ministry of Health. 2014
American College of Physicians Foundation. (Video, 6:26)
This video gives an illustration of the problem of low health literacy, combining interviews with actual patients, commentary from practicing physicians, and health communication statistics. 2011
Health Literacy for Healthcare Professionals: A Tool for Better Health Outcomes (Video, 5:08)
This video was created by 5 student Occupational Therapists at University of Manitoba to be used as an advocacy tool in order to provide student healthcare professionals information that would assist in ensuring better outcomes for clients. 2014.
Health Literacy: Learning is the best medicine (Video, 9:19)
Literacy can be a major determinant of health. Health literacy is the ability to access, understand, evaluate and communicate information as a way to promote, maintain and improve health in a variety of settings across the life course. 2010.
Health Literacy Skit (Video, 7:27)
SCSU Nursing class. 2013.
Introduction to Health Literacy (Video, 3:56)
Miami Dade College. 2021
Plain language: Say It Simply (Video, 4:28)
Minnesota Department of Human Services. 2016
This is Bad Enough (Video, 2:16)
Poem by Elspeth Murray. Written while Elspeth was working in patient involvement for SCAN, the South East Scotland Cancer Network. 2008