Literacy Partners of Manitoba

Health Literacy

Literacy and Health Manual (PDF 157 KB)
This workshop manual introduces health providers to the links between literacy and health and offers strategies for reaching clients with low literacy skills.

The development of these resources was funded by a grant from The Winnipeg Foundation:

Going to the Doctor (PDF 1.35 MB)
This classroom text may be used to familiarize adult learners with questions to ask at the doctor's.

Instructor's Guide to Going to the Doctor (PDF 788 KB)

Patient's Prompt Card (PDF 136 KB)
This wallet-sized folding card will help a patient remember what to ask at the doctor's.

Health Provider's Handy Guide to Working with Clients with Low Literacy Skills (PDF 30 KB)
This card suggests strategies to use and things to remember when working with patients with low literacy skills.

Literacy and Health: Defining Links and Developing Partnerships (funded by Health Canada) 2003.

In this project, we gave 16 one-day training sessions to literacy and health practitioners in Regional Health Authorities across Manitoba. We

explained the links between low literacy and poor health
encouraged literacy practioners to incorporate health topics in their curriculum
showed health providers how to make theri documents more accessible to patients with low liteacy skills
demonstrated other techniques for reaching "hard to reach" clients.

Essential Skills Fact Sheet produced by the NWT Literacy Council (PDF 122 KB)

The following resources were developed as part of a Population Health project funded by Health Canada:

“Before and After” Examples

Revised Health Documents for Patients