Clear and Simple Making Health Communications Work Theory at a Glance Cancer Rates and Risks
This guide helps one develop publications for people with limited-literacy skills. The guide features proven prinicples and discusses the real-life issues faced when developing low-literacy materials, including constraints of time, budget, and organizational pressures. Here are key principles and steps for developing and evaluating health communications programs for the public, patients, and health professionals. This guide presents theory and process for changing health-realted behaviors. It discusses community factors that influence outcomes and offers tools for problem solving in health promotion. The information should be useful to public health workers in state and local agencies. This provides international cancer incidence and mortality rates in a series of charts and graphs. It also provides narrative discussions of cancer risk factors and risks for major cancers. 
   
Understanding the Immune System Understanding Gene Testing  
This booklet describes the complex network of specialized cells and organs that make up the human immune system. It explains how the system works to fight off disease and how it sometimes malfunctions. The text explains what genes are, how they work, and how faulty genes trigger disease such as cancer. It discusses the benefits and limitations of gene testing.