The Partnership for Clear Health Communication is a coalition of national organizations that are working together to promote awareness and solutions around the issue of low health literacy and its effect on health outcomes.

A Hidden Health Crisis
A Serious Impact
As an emerging public health issue, low health literacy is often misunderstood as a condition that affects a specific portion of the population. In reality, its scope is broad and its impact severe.

Although low health literacy can affect everyone regardless of background or educational level, studies on the issue show that limited literacy skills are a stronger predictor of an individual's health status than age, income, employment status, education level, and racial or ethnic group.

Although ethnic minority groups are disproportionately affected by low literacy, the majority of those with low literacy skills in the United States are white, native-born Americans.