Patient health education
How to order resource materials
Most items are available as printable PDFs. The items that have an 
icon can be viewed and printed, but will be higher quality if ordered from Provider Services.
To order materials, contact your Provider Services consultant or send an email to kpwa.provider-services@kp.org. Additional health education information is available in health and wellness resources.
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- Alcohol: Options for People Thinking About Their Drinking Guide
- Alcohol: Penn Alcohol Craving Scale
- Alcohol: Short Inventory of Problems (SIP-2R)
- Alcohol: Rethinking Drinking
- AUDIT-C Alcohol Use Questionnaire
- CRAFFT Questionnaire for Adolescents
- Opioid Risk Tool©
- Alcohol and Health
- Alcohol and Health: Let's Rethink How We Drink video
- Drug use Questionnaire for Adults (DAST-10)
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- Asthma Action Plan (symptom-based)
- Asthma Action Plan (peak flow based)
- Asthma Control Test: Patients Age 4 to 11 Years
- Asthma Control Test: Patients Age 12 Years and Older
- How to Use a Peak Flow Meter
- How to Use a Nebulizer with Air Compressor
- How to Use an Inhaler by Chamber
- How to Use the Valved Holding Chamber
- How to Use Your Respimat® Inhaler
- How to Use Your Diskus Inhaler
- How to Use Your Flonase Nasal Spray
- How to Use Your Metered-Dose Inhaler
- How to Use Your Nasarel Nasal Spray
- How to Use Your Spiriva HandiHaler
- How to Use Your Twisthaler
- Lungs: How the Lungs Work
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Cholesterol
- Cholesterol Testing (Adults)
- How to Improve Your Cholesterol Numbers
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Heart Care
- Blood Pressure Wallet Card
- Checking your blood pressure
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–Poster - High Blood Pressure Basics
- Measuring Your Blood Pressure at Home
- Salt, Sodium, and Blood Pressure
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Heart disease
- Infective Endocarditis
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Heart failure
- Living With Congestive Heart Failure: Taking Care of Yourself When Sick
- The Weakening Heart
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Nutrition
- A Healthy Plate
- Nutrition Facts
- The Mediterranean meal plan
- The Mediterranean meal plan (Spanish)
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Venous thromboembolism (VTE)
- DVT Care Plan
- DVT: Living With DVT
- DVT: What You Need to Know
- Enoxaparin: How to Give A Shot
- Enoxaparin Information
- PE Care Plan
- PE: Living With PE
- PE: What You Need to Know
- Staying Safe
- Vitamin K information
- Warfarin Calendar
- Warfarin Information
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- COPD Assessment Test (CAT)
- COPD Risk and Smoking Cessation
- Huff Cough
- Pursed Lip Breathing
- Living Well with COPD: Oxygen Therapy for Better Breathing
- Living Well with COPD: Managing Symptoms
- Living Well with COPD: Taking Care of Yourself When You're Sick
- Living Well with COPD: Skills for Better Breath Control
- Living Well with Chronic Conditions Brochure
- Lungs: How the Lungs Work
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- Annual Mental Health Questionnaire
- Mental Health Monitoring Tool
- Depression in Pre-Teens and Teens
- Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9): Adolescents
- Suicide Risk Assessment
- Understanding and Managing Your Depression
- What You Need to Know About Depression
- Shared Decision Making for Choosing Antidepressant Medications
- Lock to Live: Tool to help reduce access to firearms and prescription meds
- Lock to Live Website
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- Diabetes Teaching Aid
- How Our Bodies Turn Food Into Energy
- How Our Bodies Turn Food Into Energy (Russian)
- How Our Bodies Turn Food Into Energy (Spanish)
- How Our Bodies Turn Food Into Energy (Tagalog)
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Self-management skills
- Guide to Working With Your Health Care Team
- Know Your ABCs
- Make an Action Plan
- Top 10 Tips to Help You Stay in Control
- Type 1: Taking Care of Yourself When You're Sick
- Type 1: Taking Care of Yourself When You're Sick (Spanish)
- Type 2: Taking Care of Yourself When You're Sick
- Type 2: Taking Care of Yourself When You're Sick (Spanish)
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Blood sugar
- Blood Sugar Numbers to Help You Stay in Control
- Blood Sugar — What You Need to Know (Spanish)
- Low Blood Sugar: The 15/15 Rule
- Low Blood Sugar: The 15/15 Rule (Spanish)
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Medication & diabetes supplies
- Blood Glucose Meter: OneTouch Verio Flex
- Blood Glucose Meter: OneTouch Verio Flex (Spanish)
- Blood Glucose Meter: True Metrix
- How to Give an Insulin Shot
- How to Give an Insulin Shot (Spanish)
- How to Use Bydureon® BCise™ for Your Once-a-Week Dose
- How to Use Your Prefilled Humulin KwikPen
- How to Use Your Prefilled Humulin KwikPen (Spanish)
- Humulin R U-500: What You Need to Know
- Medication Overview
- Safe Disposal of Needles, Syringes, and Lancets
- Safe Disposal of Needles, Syringes, and Lancets (Spanish)
- Statin Drugs to Lower Risk of Heart Attack and Stroke
- Statin Drugs to Lower Risk of Heart Attack and Stroke (Spanish)
- Types of Insulin and Length of Activity
- Types of Insulin and Length of Activity (Spanish)
- Where to Take Your Insulin Shot
- Where to Take Your Insulin Shot (Spanish)
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Meal planning & healthy eating
- Carbohydrate Examples for Sick Days
- Meal Planning: A Healthy Plate
- Mediterranean meal plan
- Mediterranean meal plan (Spanish)
- Snacks: It's Okay to Snack!
- Snacks: It's Okay to Snack! (Spanish)
- Understanding Carbohydrates
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Exercise & physical activity
- Exercise and Diabetes: Getting Active
- Exercise and Diabetes: Common Questions
- Exercising Safely
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Meal planning & healthy eating
- Action Plan for Healthier Eating
- Carbohydrates: Sample Meals for Carbohydrate Counting
- Food and How it Affects Blood Sugar
- Food, Exercise & Blood Sugar Record
- Food, Exercise & Blood Sugar Record (Spanish)
- Healthy Plate
- Snacks: It's Okay to Snack!
- Snacks: It's Okay to Snack! (Spanish)
- Understanding Carbohydrates
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Exercise & physical activity
- Exercise and Diabetes: Getting Active
- Exercise: How Being Active Can Help You With Your Diabetes Control
- Exercise: How Being Active Can Help You With Your Diabetes Control (Spanish)
- Exercising Safely
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Medication & diabetes supplies
- Blood Glucose Meter: Verio
- Blood Glucose Meter: Verio Flex
- Blood Glucose Meter: Verio Flex (Spanish)
- Blood Glucose Meter: Verio Flex: How to share your blood sugar readings
- How to Adjust Bedtime NPH Insulin Dose
- How to Give an Insulin Shot
- How to Give an Insulin Shot (Spanish)
- How to Use Your Lantus SoloSTAR
- How to Use Your Prefilled Basaglar® KwikPen™
- How to Use Bydureon® BCise™ for Your Once-a-Week Dose
- How to Use Your Prefilled Humulin KwikPen
- How to Use Your Prefilled Humulin KwikPen (Spanish)
- How to Use Your Prodigy VOICE™ Blood Glucose Meter
- Humulin R U-500: What You Need to Know
- Information about Jardiance® (empagliflozin)
- Insulin Pump Therapy: Is It Right for You?
- Medication Overview
- Safe Disposal of Needles, Syringes, and Lancets
- Safe Disposal of Needles, Syringes, and Lancets (Spanish)
- Statin Drugs to Lower Risk of Heart Attack and Stroke
- Statin Drugs to Lower Risk of Heart Attack and Stroke (Spanish)
- Types of Insulin and Length of Activity
- Types of Insulin and Length of Activity (Spanish)
- Where to Take Your Insulin Shot
- Where to Take Your Insulin Shot (Spanish)
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Self-care resources & tools
- Blood Sugar Control When Taking Steroids
- Blood Sugar Numbers to Help You Stay in Control
- Carbohydrate Examples for Sick Days
- Diabetes Care at Kaiser Permanente: Your starting point for better control
- Diabetes Record Wallet Card
- Diabetes Record Wallet Card (Spanish)
- Diabetes Self Care Daily Record
- Diabetes Self Care Daily Record (Spanish)
- Food, Exercise & Blood Sugar Records
- Food, Exercise & Blood Sugar Records (Spanish)
- Foot Care: Spanish
- Guide to Working With Your Health Care Team
- Hyperglycemia
- Hyperglycemia (Spanish)
- Hypoglycemia
- Hypoglycemia (Spanish)
- Know Your ABCs
- Make an Action Plan
- Type 1: Taking Care of Yourself When You're Sick
- Type 1: Taking Care of Yourself When You're Sick (Spanish)
- Type 2: Taking Care of Yourself When You're Sick
- Type 2: Taking Care of Yourself When You're Sick (Spanish)
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Wound care
- Changing Your Wound Dressing
- Clean Care is Safer Care
- Diabetic Foot Ulcer
- Tips to Help You Heal Faster
- Wound Care: Letter to New Patients
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- What you need to know about getting tested for HIV
- PrEP: What you need to know
- Routine HIV testing: Part of preventive care at Kaiser Permanente
- Blood Pressure Wallet Card
- Checking your blood pressure
– Handout
–Poster - High Blood Pressure Basics
- Measuring Your Blood Pressure at Home
- Salt, Sodium, and Blood Pressure
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Pregnancy, labor, and birth
- #1 First Trimester
- #2 Second Trimester
- #3 Third Trimester
- #4 After Delivery
- Your Plan for Childbirth
- Monitoring Your Baby
- Birth After a Prior Cesarean Delivery
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Newborn care
- Caring for Yourself and Your New Baby
- Deciding About Circumcision
- Protect Your Child from Secondhand Smoke
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Gestational diabetes
- Gestational diabetes booklet
- Gestational diabetes: 2000 calorie meal plan
- Gestational diabetes: 2000 calorie meal plan (Russian)
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Labs and tests during pregnancy
- Group B Streptococcus (GBS)
- Prenatal risk screening
- Gestational diabetes
- Non-stress test
- Chlamydia and Gonorrhea Testing
- Genital HPV Infection (CDC website)
- Herpes (CDC website)
- PrEP: What you need to know
- Routine HIV testing: Part of preventive care at Kaiser Permanente
- Syphilis (CDC website)
- Syphilis and MSM (CDC website)
- Trichomoniasis (CDC website)
- What you need to know about getting tested for HIV
- Decision Aid: E-cigarettes to Quit Smoking
- Quit for Life Program Brochure
- Bupropion SR for Quitting Tobacco
- Nicorette Gum for Quitting Tobacco
- Nicotine Lozenges for Quitting Tobacco
- Nicotine Patches for Quitting Tobacco
- Protect Your Child From Secondhand Smoke
- Staying Tobacco-Free After You've Had Your Baby
- Varenicline (Chantix) for Quitting Tobacco
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Preventive care schedules
- Wellness Recommendations for Women Aged 18 to 64
- Wellness Recommendations for Women Aged 65 and Above
- Wellness Recommendations for Men Aged 18 to 64
- Wellness Recommendations for Men Aged 65 and Above
- Well Child Visit/Immunization Schedule
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Well care questionnaires
- Medical, Surgical and Family History Questionnaire
- Family and Medical Questionnaire for Parents/Guardians of Children and Teens
- Well-Care Questionnaire: Children age 3 to 5 days
- Well-Care Questionnaire: Children age 7 to 14 days
- Well-Care Questionnaire: Children age 2 months
- Well-Care Questionnaire: Children age 4 months
- Well-Care Questionnaire: Children age 6 months
- Well-Care Questionnaire: Children age 9 months
- Well-Care Questionnaire: Children age 12 months
- Well-Care Questionnaire: Children age 15 months
- Well-Care Questionnaire: Children age 18 months
- Well-Care Questionnaire: Children age 2 years
- Well-Care Questionnaire: Children age 3 years
- Well-Care Questionnaire: Children age 4 years
- Well-Care Questionnaire: Children age 5 years
- Well-Care Questionnaire: Children age 6-9 years
- Well-Care Questionnaire: Preteens 10-12
- Well-Care Questionnaire: Teens 13-17
- Well-Care Questionnaire: Young Adults 18-21
- Well-Care Questionnaire: Adults ages 22-64
- Well-Care Questionnaire: Adults on Medicare or ages 65+
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Breast and ovarian cancer
- Breast Cancer Risk Questionnaire
- Breast Cancer Screening at Kaiser Permanente
- Breast Self-Exam
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Cervical cancer
- Genital HPV (CDC website)
- Cervical Cancer Screening With Pap Test
- Cervical Cancer Screening With Pap Test (Spanish)
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Colon cancer
- Colon Cancer Screening
- Stool Test to Screen for Colon Cancer
- Flexible Sigmoidoscopy
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Prostate cancer
- Prostate Cancer Screening
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Lung cancer
- Lung Cancer Screening
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Cancer screening: FIT patient instructions various languages
- Amharic
- Chinese
- English
- Khmer
- Korean
- Russian
- Somali
- Spanish
- Tagalog
- Tigrinya
- Ukrainian
- Vietnamese
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- Alcohol: Penn Alcohol Craving Scale
- Alcohol: Short Inventory of Problems (SIP-2R)
- Alcohol: Rethinking Drinking Booklet
- AUDIT Alcohol Questionnaire
- AUDIT-C Alcohol Use Questionnaire
- Drug and Alcohol Use Questionnaire for Adolescents (CRAFFT Survey)
- Drug Use Questionnaire for Adults (DAST-10)
- Maternal Mental Health Screening
- Opioid Risk Tool©
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- Healthy Kids Healthy Futures 3-5 Days
- Healthy Kids Healthy Futures 7-14 Days
- Healthy Kids Healthy Futures 2 Months
- Healthy Kids Healthy Futures 4 Months
- Healthy Kids Healthy Futures 6 Months
- Healthy Kids Healthy Futures 9 Months
- Healthy Kids Healthy Futures 12 Months
- Healthy Kids Healthy Futures 15-18 Months
- Healthy Kids Healthy Futures 2 Years
- Healthy Kids Healthy Futures 3 Years
- Healthy Kids Healthy Futures 4 Years
- Healthy Kids Healthy Futures 5 Years
- Healthy Kids Healthy Futures 6 Years
- Healthy Kids Healthy Futures 8 Years
- Tips for Preteens and Their Parents
- Healthy Teeth and Gums for children 9 months to 3 years
More resources
HEALTH DECISION TOOLS
Use and refer patients to shared decision making tools that explain treatment options for certain diseases and conditions.
HEALTHWISE DECISION POINTS
Interactive decision point tools help guide patients through key health decisions about medical tests, medicines, surgeries, treatments, and other issues.