This is (relatively) old news, but in case you missed it, the National Academies Press recently released an interesting new book on health literacy interventions around the world, Health Literacy: Improving Health, Health Systems, and Health Policy Around the World. The book is basically a summary of the discussions and findings that came out of a workshop held here in Washington earlier this year on international health literacy efforts.

You can read it online or download a PDF of the book for free. You can also order a hard copy directly from National Academies or through Amazon.

Michael Lytton, Blog Editor for the American Journal of Preventative Medicine, discusses this publication in a recent blog post— the first installment in a short series he is planning to write on the subject of health literacy.