In December 2020, the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion was busy rolling out the new Healthy People 2030 objectives. Read More

For many months now, we have all been keeping our distance from others and washing our hands (a lot!). And, while it has helped, it has not been enough to stop the spread of COVID-19. Read More

2019-2020 was an impactful program year for the UAMS Center for Health Literacy (CHL), as well as a year of transition. Our founder and executive director, Kristie Hadden, Ph.D., assumed other roles at our academic medical center, and CHL’s previous program director, Alison Caballero, MPH, CHES, assumed leadership of the Center. Read More

People need accurate, easy to understand health information to make appropriate health decisions for themselves and their families. Read More

Visual aids, such as illustrations and photos, are an important component of many successful health materials.  Read More

With the development and use of digital health tools on the rise, we have multiple opportunities to engage with health-related technology on a daily basis. You can find an app to track anything: your sleep, weight, eating, and more. Read More

In this new series, “You Keep Saying That Word!,” we are going to talk about words that we see or hear often, but that CHL writers don’t normally use in health communication. Consider this our list of replaceables. These are words that we don’t consider easy for everyone to understand. But rest assured, we will […]

When writing health information for patients and the public, one way to ensure clinical accuracy is to draw on information from reputable sources. Writers at UAMS CHL do this a lot. In the past, part of our motivation for doing so was to lend credibility to the piece; that is, we believed that including citations […]

Have you ever read a newspaper headline like this: “Eating better reduces risk of heart disease by 20%, science says”? What does this mean, exactly? Read More

It is not news that we have a little crush on plain language. Plain language can lead to better health, especially for those that struggle with health information. Read More