Book excerpt: This Compendium was written with two main goals in mind: to help literacy teachers and students find and use health information and to share literacy information and easy-to-read health materials with health professionals, community educators, and patients. The Health and Literacy Compendium includes over 80 citations to print and Web materials available in North America that cover: * The links between health status and literacy status * How to assess and develop easy-to-read health education materials * How to teach health with literacy in mind, and how to teach literacy using health content * Background information about the literacy field and "participatory" education methodologies * Curricula and materials on a variety of health topics for adults with limited literacy skills * Bibliographies and databases of easy-to-read or multilingual health information and brochures * Bibliographies and databases of materials, including journal articles, about the connections between health and literacy.