This handbook is designed to support organisations to become health literate. The handbook provides:

• a simple definition of what it means to be a health literate organisation,
• an explanation of the five requirements for being a health literate organisation,
• a five-step approach to becoming a health literate organisation, and
• two tools to help you get there.

The development of this guide was based on previous work by Gippsland Primary Care Partnership and updated after collaboration between professionals and consumers from Melbourne’s west and inner north.