Health literacy is defined as the ability to understand health information and apply it to help you become more health. Studies, including one of our own, have shown that the majority of websites are written in a way that make them hard for users to understand. Adjusting to users' health literacy needs is an important aspect of usability.

Enalan is an expert in understanding the key ingredients that make health care information understandable to users. If your web site, brochure, book. or presentation is designed to communicate health care information, we can help you make sure that your audience will understand you. We can review written and visual materials and make recommendations for you to make them better. We can review text, establish readability levels, and edit the text to make it more understandable for your users.

Our research has shown that taking your audience's health literacy into account is essential for communicating effectively. 

References

Waldrop-Valverde D, Jones DL, Jayaweera D, Gonzalez P, Romero J, Ownby RL (2008). Gender differences in medication management capacity in HIV infection: The role of health literacy and numeracy. AIDS and Behavior, published online July, 2008, pages pending.

Ownby RL (2006). Readability of consumer-oriented geriatric depression information on the Internet. Clinical Gerontologist, 29(4):17-23.

Ownby RL (2005). Influence of vocabulary and sentence complexity and passive voice on the readability of consumer-oriented mental health information on the Internet.  Proceedings of the annual meeting of the American Medical Informatics Association, 585-588.