Links and Resources

To assist participants, the following background resources and links are provided.

Resources:

Outcome Summary Report 2010 (pdf)
2009 Health Literacy Roundtable Report (pdf)
A Vision for a Health Literate Canada (Report of the Expert Panel on Health Literacy) (pdf)
Executive Summary: A Vision for a Health Literate Canada (pdf)
Calgary_Charter_Oct_09 (pdf)
Costs_of_Limited_Health_Literacy_Eichler_2009 (pdf)
Splash_Ripple_March09_final (pdf)
Three_Faces_Of Measurement_Solberg (pdf)
HL_Action_to_Create_Pan_Canadian_Structure (doc)
HL_in_Aging_Populations_v5 (doc)
HL_Increased Health Care Costs (doc)
MHL_Initiatives_1Feb2010 (doc)
Update on Current Theory, Research and Practice.SLIDES (pdf)
References.Rootman (pdf)

Web Links:

Movement for Canadian Literacy
http://www.literacy.ca/

Canadian Alliance on Mental Illness and Mental Health
National Integrated Framework for Enhancing Mental Health Literacy in Canada
http://www.camimh.ca/

Canadian Institute for Health Information:
Canadian Population Health Initiative’s Action Plan 2007–10
http://secure.cihi.ca/cihiweb/dispPage.jsp?cw_page=GR_1608_E

Public Health Agency of Canada:
Language, Literacy and Healthy Development
http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/dca-dea/pubs/lang/index-eng.php

Public Health Agency of Canada:
How does literacy affect the health of Canadians?
http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/ph-sp/literacy-alphabetisme/literacy2-eng.php