Healthcare & Medical Icons

One of the most important things to consider when designing brochures, posters, manuals, instruction guides and other marketing collateral related to healthcare and medicine is that your target audience must be able to effectively understand and process the information you are trying to communicate. This may become quite challenging when you consider that there are a lot of technical and advanced medical terms that the lay person or average patient has neither the time nor background to fully grasp.

Thankfully, there’s an easy solution to this conundrum - the simple yet effective use of imagery, in the form of healthcare and medical icons, on all of your creative projects. These will not only make your materials easier to understand — they’re also going to look much more interesting. From medical equipment, supplies, icons of healthcare professionals and even illustrations of human anatomy — you’re sure to find a useful icon for your design.

If you’re worried about where to find these icons, you’re in luck! Canva has an entire selection of healthcare and medical icons that are ready for you to use on your designs. Just drag and drop them into any template on Canva and make adjustments like colors or transparency to suit your design. Enjoy full freedom in manipulating these icons to suit your needs; because they’re rendered as vectors, they’re bound to look good, regardless of how much you stretch or resize them. These healthcare and medical icons just might be the first aid that your poster, brochure, presentation or any other creative project needs.