What is the literacy level of MedlinePlus?
MedlinePlus offers easy-to-understand information deliberately targeted to a wide range of literacy levels. For lower literacy, MedlinePlus offers Interactive Health Tutorials (for a list of tutorials, visit www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tutorial.html) with animation and audio, as well as specifically designated Easy-to-Read pages (for a list of these pages, visit www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/easytoread/all_easytoread.html). For consumers who are seeking more detailed, advanced information, MedlinePlus offers links to specific sites on health topics, as well as links to pre-formulated searches of PubMed. PubMed retrieves the latest research and clinical articles published in more than 4,600 research biomedical journals. For additional assistance in locating low-literacy materials, contact a consumer health library in your area (www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/libraries.html).
