TY - JOUR ID - 10926 TI - Provision and Dissemination of Easy-To-Read Materials: An experience JO - Journal of Health Literacy JA - JHL LA - en SN - - AU - Amini, Faezeh AU - Ashrafi-rizi, Hasan AD - PhD Student, Medical Library and Information Science, Department of Medical Library and Information Science, School of Management and Medical Informatics, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran AD - Associate Professor, Medical Library and Information Science, Health Information Technology Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran. Y1 - 2018 PY - 2018 VL - 3 IS - 1 SP - 5 EP - 9 KW - Easy to Read Health Materials KW - Patient Education KW - Health Personnel KW - experience DO - 10.22038/jhl.2018.10926 N2 - Patient education is one of the most important factors for the provision of patients and their families' rights at health centers. Some of the benefits of patient education include: Increasing the level of health literacy, developing self-care skills in chronic diseases, increasing knowledge about conditions, improving the quality of care and helping the patient to achieve more self-sufficiency and reducing health care costs. Medical Librarians can help health professionals and nurses to promote community health by identifying useful information as well as writing them in plain language. This paper reports an experience about creating a nongovernmental center for the provision and dissemination of easy-to-read materials. It is hoped that launching and supporting such centers, in addition to promoting community health, will guarantee the patients' rights to access high quality and authentic health educational resources. This can also provide a field for the participation of various health groups and the activities of graduates of the above fields. UR - https://literacy.mums.ac.ir/article_10926.html L1 - https://literacy.mums.ac.ir/article_10926_ab8b07d7c441c2f5bdd03d5cf0754425.pdf ER -