Welcome to the Health Literacy Awareness Resource Bank – a comprehensive collection of valuable resources designed to help and support individuals and healthcare professionals in improving their health literacy. This resource bank offers a wide variety of materials covering general health information, specialised services, and research databases, making it easier for everyone to access and understand the health-related information they need.
This page was created as part of ESNEFT Libraries involvement in Health Information Week (HIW). HIW is a national campaign that aims to highlight high-quality information to patients and public around health. You can find out more about HIW below.
This page is dedicated to providing links to resources to improve health literacy. For staff who work for ESNEFT, the library team also run a health literacy training session. You can find out more about this on our health literacy training page.
The links in this section will guide you to general information on health and health services such as the NHS website and other official governmental sites.
The links in this section will guide you to some of the digital resources/information from the NHS, including the NHS App, which can provide the gateway to many NHS services.
The links in this section will guide you to specialised health information.
The links in this section will inform you about services, advice and resources to support mental health.
The links in this section will inform you about healthy lifestyle tips from the NHS.
The links in this section will provide information on some free access sites that focus on health research.
U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
The links in this section will inform you about Patient Communication and Empowerment.
The links below provide links to trusted health websites.
This section will guide you to places which can assisst with gaining skills on using the internet.
