C. Health and Learning of Adults with Low Levels of Literacy Skills

This section includes existing knowledge initiatives and possible knowledge transfer vehicles related to adult and health literacy.

1. Web sites, Portals and Databases

Adult Literacy Research in Ontario supports adult literacy research by providing access to research publications and information that clarifies and explains the research process. It provides links to other Canadian and international sites related to literacy research.
See www.research.alphaplus.ca/ (Canada)

Directory of Canadian Adult Literacy Research in English is a database which contains Canadian research in adult literacy from 1994, as well as research in progress.
See www.nald.ca/crd (Canada)

Harvard School of Public Health: Health Literacy Studies provides an overview to health literacy and links to research, information, and materials organized by broad categories.
See http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/healthliteracy/links.html (United States)

Literacies: Researching Practice and Practising Research “is a national forum that includes university-based researchers, program-based researchers, policy-makers and program workers. Its goal is to cross fences and unite the range of fields and disciplines that touch literacy. It provides a medium for a range of inquiries including analysis, discussions, debates, reflections and creative work in all aspects of research and practice
in education. Literacies’ objective is to promote writing about research in practice in Canada and to cultivate and develop writership among literacy and adult education workers.”
See http://www.literacyjournal.ca (Canada)