Health Literacy Month is October 2000!

Health Literacy Month is a grassroots, world-wide effort to promote the need for health information that its intended audience can understand. It will be celebrated for the first time in October 2000.

The Health Literacy Toolbox 2000 website is part of Health Literacy Month. It provides tools you can use to raise people's awareness about the importance of health literacy. All the articles on the site are written by health literacy advocates. Some are clinicians; some are adult educators. Others are consultants, researchers, and administrators. Each contributor brings a special insight to health literacy that he or she wants to share with you.

To learn more about how you can participate in Health Literacy Month and/or Health Literacy Toolbox 2000, contact Helen Osborne by e-mail: [email protected].. Working together, we can raise awareness about the importance of health literacy.