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Health Literacy from A to Z: Practical Ways to Communicate Your Health Message

In Health Literacy from A to Z: Practical Ways to Communicate Your Health Message, Helen Osborne takes us into the world of a health literacy consultant and the work she does to improve health communication. Over the last 10 years, health literacy has received increasing attention from researchers, policy makers, and practitioners, and Osborne has distinguished herself as one of the leading con...

Efficient campaign-type structural health monitoring using wireless smart sensors

Wireless Smart Sensor Networks (WSSNs) have attracted great attention in recent years for Structural Health Monitoring (SHM), enabling better understanding of the dynamic behavior of large scale civil infrastructures through dense deployment of sensors. With a fraction of the deployment time and cost compared with wired SHM systems, WSSNs can serve as ideal systems for campaign-type monitoring ...

Overcoming low health literacy: helping your patient understand.

Health literacy and smoking

Although both population-based and clinical interventions have been successful in lowering rates of smoking in the USA over time, the prevalence of smoking remains considerably higher than the Healthy People 2020 objective of 12% [1]. The latest national study conducted in Iran showed that 25% of the population aged 18- 65 years were smokers and age, education, gender, occupation, and marital s...