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The Health Literacy of America's Adults is the first release of the National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL) health literacy results. The results are based on assessment tasks designed specifically to measure the health literacy of adults living in the United States. Health literacy was reported using four performance levels: Below Basic, Basic, Intermediate, and Proficient.

This paper produced for the Office of Minority Health provides an in-depth overview of cultural competence in health care and cultural competence curricula through the paradigm of the CLAS standards. The purpose of the paper is to report findings of an environmental scan to inform the development of cultural competence curriculum modules for family physicians.

The purpose of this Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) report is to systematically review the evidence to determine the effectiveness of interventions designed to improve the quality of healthcare and/or to reduce disparities for ethnic minorities. It focuses on evaluations of interventions aimed at healthcare providers or organizations.

This toolkit emerged out of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation project involving ten hospitals with racially and ethnically diverse patient populations. The project aimed at improving the quality and availability of health care language services for patients with limited English proficiency (LEP).