Designing Infographics – A Manual for Health Care Provider Learners and Practitioners

Infographics are combinations of text and imagery commonly used in health care to summarize complex information in a story for health care learners, providers, patients or other audiences. Infographics are used in health care higher education both for teaching and for learners’ projects. Family Medicine residents, Nurse Practitioner students and others often make infographics (handouts, one-pagers or brochures) for their scholarly projects. Our objective for this manual was to summarize published evidence for the basic principles of infographics development with an emphasis on the design phase. Our primary audience for this manual is health care provider learners and practitioners. Our goal is to help them share evidence-based information with colleagues and the public.