OBJECTIVE To inform a community-based message framing intervention encouraging physical activity and fruit and vegetable consumption among medically underserved adults. METHOD Key informant interviews, focus groups, and a survey were conducted with limited-literacy Hispanics in the northeastern United States. RESULTS Barriers to healthy lifestyle behaviors exist at individual, community, a...

February 1997 saw the publication of an influential report (Literacy Task Force, 1997a) on literacy, written by a ‘task force' set up by the Labour Party and chaired by Professor Michael Barber. Following Labour's victory in the May 1997 election, many of the ideas from that report were incorporated into the education White Paper, ‘Excellence in Schools', which was published in July. In this ar...

In the context of a quasi-experimental research design, literacy data obtained on students were examined to assess relationships between kindergarten program model (fullvs. half-day) and student literacy outcomes. Application of multilevel modeling techniques to the time series data collected from kindergarteners in economically disadvantaged school contexts in a large southwestern school distr...

This article describes the implementation of an innovative research literacy teaching-learning activity. The Research in Practice Challenge activity promoted the importance and relevance of evidence-based practice with second-year nursing students in an undergraduate research course. Students appraised the evidence within policies and practice guidelines identified by managers in practice. Coll...

The ability to obtain, understand and use the information needed to make wise health choices is known as health literacy. Low health literacy among members of populations with poor reading skills, limited mastery of the English language, members of ethnic or cultural minorities, and immigrants is likely a major contributor to health disparities in the US (Agency for Health Care Policy and Resea...

Literacy and health research and prac­ tice in Canada date back to the late 1980s when the Ontario Public Health Association (OPHA) collaborated with Frontier College, the country’s oldest literacy network, on a literacy and health project. Their first report, Making the World Healthier and Safer for People Who Can’t Read, was published in 1989.1 Their second report, Partners in Practice, docu­...

The Literacy Policy Project examines the trends in UK government policy interventions into literacy curriculum and pedagogies schools England. We undertake a scholarship methodology to read texts through conceptual framework that frames with functional, realist or socially critical purposes. identify how successive governments have primarily adopted functional policies research relating argue i...

Patient empowerment through self-management education is central to improving the quality of diabetes care and preventing Type 2 Diabetes. Although national programs exist, there is no EU-wide strategy for diabetes self-management education, and patients with limited literacy face barriers to effective self-management. The Diabetes Literacy project, initiated with the support of the European Co...