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.
