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Wisconsin Health Literacy (WHL) is a division of  Wisconsin Literacy, Inc., a non-profit coalition of over 70 community-based literacy programs throughout the state. WHL works with both community-based organizations and healthcare organizations so that every person is able to find, understand, and use health information and services.  

Mission: Advance health equity through health literacy in organizations and communities.

Vision: All people have the skills and a fair opportunity to be healthy.

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Health Literacy News

WHL is pleased to share new mission and vision statements, which were adopted to better align with the activities and goals of the division:

Mission: Advance health equity through health literacy in organizations and communities.
Vision: All people have the skills and a fair opportunity to be healthy.

A unique partnership between Wisconsin Health Literacy’s Vaccine Community Outreach (VCO) initiative and the Eau Claire-based Black and Brown Womyn Power Coalition (BBWPC) resulted in a dramatic increase in COVID-19 vaccination rates among the Hmong population.

The Wisconsin Health Literacy Summit Embracing Health Literacy in the New Normal: Digital Communications, Telehealth, Health Insurance, and Health Equity took place on April 4 -6th, 2022. Individuals who work in healthcare, insurance, public health, community-based organizations, research, education, information technology, libraries, literacy and more were able to learn and discuss solutions and strategies to communicate information related to health for improved health outcomes.


What is health literacy?

Healthy People 2030 defines health literacy as both personal and organizational:  

  • Personal health literacy is the degree to which individuals have the ability to find, understand, and use information and services to inform health-related decisions and actions for themselves and others. 
  • Organizational health literacy is the degree to which organizations equitably enable individuals to find, understand, and use information and services to inform health-related decisions and actions for themselves and others. 

Any person can experience health literacy issues at some point in their life, which can result in high costs or poor health.  

Resources on health literacy