AED's Health Literacy Practice helps groups and organizations more effectively communicate health information to underserved populations. Our work is rooted in best practices, social marketing theory and evidence-based research.
We can help you learn and apply the principles of health literacy to your work, whether you represent a:
AED's work in the area of health literacy has included:
- Training more than 1,000 people in the corporate and public health fields on health literacy principles;
- Serving on the Institute of Medicine's (IOM) health literacy expert panel and roundtable;
- Partnering with IOM to assess and address health literacy at a community level by involving and engaging youth and adults;
- Developing Medicaid's outreach strategy and materials for its low-literate audience when Medicaid moved 85,000 Washington D.C. beneficiaries into managed care;
- Conducting consumer research and reviewing materials to improve Medicare's communication to older Americans;
- Working with leading national government agencies and organizations in the field of tobacco cessation around health literacy; and
- Presenting on health literacy at various conferences, most recently at the National Conference on Tobacco or Health.
We can help you better communicate health information to your various audiences. Click on the link above that applies to you and find out how.
