The Medical Library Association guide to health literacy / 
 Guide to health literacy 
edited by Marge Kars, Lynda M. Baker, and Feleta L. Wilson. 
 - New York :  Neal-Schuman Publishers,  c2008. 
 - xiv, 314 p. :  ill. ;  23 cm. 
 - Medical Library Association guides .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction to health literacy / Lynda M. Baker, Marge Kars, and Feleta L. Wilson -- Review of the literature / Nancy Schaefer -- Social practices in talk as components of health literacy / Charlene Pope -- Cultural competence and health literacy / Misa Mi -- Impact of patient low literacy on the individual and family / Feleta L. Wilson -- The association between literacy and health : providing health information to adults with low literacy / Heather J. Martin and C. Nadine Wathen -- Health literacy for people with disabilities / Shelley Hourston -- Health literacy and America's senior citizens / Marcy Brown -- A new digital divide : teens and Internet literacy / Ellen Freda, Jonathan Hayes Goff, and Andrea L. Kenyon -- The health reference interview : getting to the heart of the question while assessing your customer's literacy skills / Karyn Prechtel -- Public libraries and health literacy / Barbara Bibel -- Health literacy in Canada : highlighting library initiatives / Susan Murray -- Consumer health services in hospitals : the front line for health literacy / Julie Esparza -- Health literacy in action : the Bronson experience / Marge Kars -- Intervention programs for health literacy / Cleo Pappas -- Forming and funding collaborations to address health literacy / Kristine Alpi and Dina Sherman. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781555706258 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1555706258 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2008023323 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Medical librarianship--United States--Handbooks, manuals, etc.<br/>Health education--United States--Handbooks, manuals, etc.<br/>Patient education--United States--Handbooks, manuals, etc.<br/>Literacy--Health aspects.--United States<br/>Social medicine--United States.<br/>Medical libraries--Reference services--United States.<br/>Libraries and illiterate persons.<br/>Libraries and people with social disabilities.<br/>Libraries and community.<br/>Communication in medicine.<br/>Health literacy.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>Z675.M4  / M497 2008 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>026.61 KAR