Promoting Health Literacy: Finding Consumer Health Resources and Writing Health Materials for Patients.

The article offers the efforts of the government for patient to gain the health literacy skills to navigate and understand the health care system. It discusses the Plain Writing Act of 2010 under the Obama Administration and strategies to make language plain and understandable to lay audiences at a myriad of literacy levels. It mentions the role of librarians in promoting health literacy by providing patients access to high-quality patient education and consumer health materials.