California Health Literacy Initiative
The goal of the California Health Literacy Initiative is to inform and partner with individuals and organizations to craft collective, lasting solutions which will positively impact the health and well-being of individuals with low-literacy skills, their families, and their communities. This plan for California will serve as a groundbreaking, national model for health literacy; currently, no statewide efforts of such complexity are being undertaken.
Health News Review
A website dedicated to improving the accuracy of news stories about medical treatments, tests, procedures, and helping consumers evaluate the evidence for and against new ideas in health care. A multi-disciplinary team reviews news stories that make a therapeutic claim about investigational drugs or devices, vitamins or nutritional supplements, diagnostic and screening tests.
Medical Information on the Internet-A Guide for Health Reporters and Consumers
MedPage Today
This site offers daily coverage of breaking medical news, accompanied by professional medical analysis. Its aim is to "provide clinicians with the real-time information they need to address their patients' questions" and to help them understand "how new developments might impact their clinical practice". The Web site features news by specialty and gives visitors the option of signing up for daily morning email updates.
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Amazing Research, Amazing Help Fact Sheet
A description and listing of evidence-based health information and resources for patients, families, researchers, teachers, students, clinicians and other healthcare providers.
Questions Are the Answer (AHRQ)
Get more involved with your healthcare. Clinicians, the Government and many other groups are working to improve health care quality, but improving health care quality is a team effort. Ask questions. Understand your condition. Evaluate your options.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services-Office of Disease Prevention and Promotion
Health Literacy is the capacity to obtain, process and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions. Included in this site are tools for improving health literacy, government resources, reports and research.
College, Public & Special Libraries
Canada College Library
City College of San Francisco Library & Learning Resources
College of San Mateo (CSM) Library
San Francisco State University J. Paul Leonard Library
San Mateo County Law Library
San Mateo County Public Library
Skyline College Library
Daughters of Charity Health System, Health Sciences Libraries
O'Connor Hospital
Seton Medical Center
St. Francis Medical Center
St. Vincent Medical Center