CALPACT Webinar: Applying Health Literacy to Health Insurance - Resources
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Transcript of CALPACT Webinar: Applying Health Literacy to Health Insurance - Resources
Helpful Tools and Links:
• American Institutes for Research • Cover Oregon • Health Insurance Literacy (HIL) Issue Brief and information about the HIL measure • Training modules from the University of Maryland that were developed to prepare
consumers to choose and use health insurance • Kaiser Family Foundation resource on health reform • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Medicaid study • Enroll America Final Report
Resources from Participants
For those interested in information dissemination, check out: "Social Networks and Popular Understanding of Science and Health: Sharing Disparities" by Brian Southwell
Health Literacy Advisor Software from Health Literacy Innovations To test reading level, a good resource is the Fry Readability Formula. It is a manual test
but has been validated. Usability can be determined through the SAM (Suitability Assessment of Materials).
Another vote for the SAM from the Doaks' book and Fry for English, as measured by the Health Literacy Advisor tool, from Health Literacy Innovations -- their program has a Spanish reading level measure as well.
The Kaiser Family Foundation: "Subsidy Calculator"
Applying Health Literacy to Health Insurance: Resources