About Us
Mission: Advance health equity through health literacy in organizations and communities.
Vision: All people have the skills and a fair opportunity to be healthy.
Some ways WHL works to address health literacy are:
- Community outreach and educational programs
- Creating easy to understand resources
- Partnering with community members
- Systems change to standardize health literacy best practices
- Decreasing digital health literacy barriers
- Trainings for providers to help increase organizational health literacy
- Organizational health literacy assessments to measure health literacy improvements
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.
Health Literacy Services
Wisconsin Health Literacy offers training and consulting services customized to meet your organizational needs. Trainings focus on the numerous ways that health literacy impacts care delivery, health outcomes, and public health.
Medication Label
Wisconsin Health Literacy is working with a patient advisory council to design easy-to-read medication labels. Our work has impacted over 4 million prescription labels in Wisconsin.
Health Literacy Summit
The Health Literacy Summit is the largest in the Midwest.
Diverse sessions and networking opportunities provided attendees with the opportunity to learn more about health literacy.
Visit our Summit page for more information.
