Identify a specific population that you will seek to educate about this issue.

Health Literacy—Developing Patient Education Materials
Health information literacy has become an important aspect of quality care that is also critical for patient safety and culturally competent care. In this Assignment, you are asked to create an educational handout aimed at improving health literacy in your community around a particular health topic. This educational handout should both attract and educate users.

For this Assignment:

Select a health issue of interest to you.
Identify a specific population that you will seek to educate about this issue.
Search the Internet to find credible websites containing information about your selected topic.
Note that credible websites end with .gov, .edu, or .org.
If you are unsure whether a found website is credible, contact your instructor.
Consider the how you might reach the selected population keeping age, socioeconomic status, education level, and culture in mind.
Assignment: 1-page educational handout and accompanying cover page

Cover page
Introduce the handout and its features.
An explanation of your issue and why you selected it.
A descriiption of the population you are addressing.
A descriiption of the factors that you considered when creating the education handout (e.g. age, culture, education, etc.)
The results of your readability analysis (see instructions below).
Education Handout
Develop your handout in such a way that it attracts the attention of the intended audience.
Use language, graphics, and images that relate to your population and their demographics.
Be sure that all graphics are free use.
Include a descriiption of the health issue and additional content that will enhance your message (i.e., key terms and definitions, graphics, illustrations, etc.).
Recommend four or five credible websites that provide clear, valuable, and reliable information on the topic.
Ensure that the reading level of your educational handout is at an 8th grade level or lower.
Use the following website to determine readability:
Include your readability results on the cover page.
By Day 7

Submit your original patient-related document as a PDF and the Week 5 Assignment.

Hebda, T., Hunter, K., & Czar, P. (2019). Handbook of informatics for nurses & health care professionals (6th ed.). Pearson.

Chapter 4, “Information Literacy and the Critical Assessment of Online Information” (pp. 58–60)
Chapter 18, “Consumer Health Informatics” (pp.376–377, 380–385)

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