Public Health Providers

INFORMATION FOR PUBLIC HEALTH PROFESSIONALS

• You have the power to improve health literacy!!!
• All public health professionals can help improve health literacy.

Health Literacy Guidelines

1. Look at the Ask Me 3 questions and make sure these questions are answered each time with each community member/patient.
2.  Check the readability statistics for any of the information you give to patients or the public.
3.  Use the resources here as a guide, but remember individual strategies are needed for each community in order to keep your patients and residents safe and informed!