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Patient Education

Health literacy is a complex issue that effects a patient’s safety, overall health and impacts healthcare spending (National Network of Libraries of Medicine: Health Literacy). This document of Health Literacy resources have been compiled by the VHA librarians and library technicians to assist VHA staff in working more effectively with our Veteran patients. Included are health literacy materials, readability formulas, free resources for pictograms and graphics, and sites that assist in writing low-literacy patient education materials.

The following library resources have patient education materials included in the national subscription. Patient education materials can be printed and distributed to Veterans, caregivers, and their families.

  • AccessEmergency Medicine (English and Spanish; select materials available in Chinese, French, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Tagalog, and Vietnamese)

 

  • AccessMedicine (English and Spanish; select materials available in Chinese, French, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Tagalog, and Vietnamese)

 

  • AccessPharmacy (English and Spanish; select materials available in Chinese, French, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Tagalog, and Vietnamese)

 

  • AccessSurgery (English and Spanish; select materials available in Chinese, French, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Tagalog, and Vietnamese)

 

  • ClinicalKey (English and Spanish; select materials available in Arabic, Bosnian, Canadian French, Chinese (Mandarin/Traditional), Haitian Creole, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Tagalog, and Vietnamese)

 

  • ClinicalKey for Nursing (English and Spanish; select materials available in Arabic, Bosnian, Canadian French, Chinese (Mandarin/Traditional), Haitian Creole, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Tagalog, and Vietnamese)

 

  • LexiComp Online for Dentistry (English and Spanish; select materials available in Arabic, Chinese, Creole, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Tagalog, Turkish, and Vietnamese)

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Veterans Health Library, available from the VHA National Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (NCP) contains an extensive collection of info on Diseases and Conditions and Living With sections that were approved by VHA subject experts.

External Link Disclaimer: All links above are External links. By clicking on these links, you will leave the Department of Veterans Affairs website. VA does not endorse and is not responsible for the content of the linked website.

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