Plain language and health literacy
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This branch covers making health information understandable and usable, divided into readers’ capacity, plain-language writing practice and resources that support both. It leaves assessment of drafts to readability and reader testing, general language mechanics to language and style, and particular patient and participant documents to their document branches.
- Health literacy — the concept, limited literacy and its consequences, reader behaviour, interventions and message planning
- Plain language — definition, misunderstood words, planning and wording, learning, organisational practice and policy
- Plain-language and health literacy guides, toolkits and training — guides, toolkits, patient communication, glossaries, resource assessment and continuing learning