BACKGROUND Literacy is important for success in school and in adulthood. Book-gift programs at birth exist to help develop these foundations early on. The effectiveness of the Read to Me! Nova Scotia Family Literacy Program (a program where books and literacy materials are given to families in hospital when their baby is born) on the duration and frequency with which mothers engage in reading a...

services that are traditional to public libraries, the book will be of less interest to most academic librarians. Public librarians and library school students are the principal audience. As a result, overall, this book serves as a valuable source for public librarians who want to reevaluate and reexamine their instructional services .—Ning Han, Mississippi State University. Librarians have lon...

methods this cross-sectional study was conducted on 200 older adults in southeast iran, during year 2015. the twenty health centers were selected randomly and 10 subjects were selected using multistage random sampling from a population from each health center. the test of functional health literacy in adults questionnaire was used for collecting the data. the data was analyzed using the stata.1...

Computerized dietary assessment programs are often used for nutrition education research and practice. This article provides an informal overview of 29 dietary assessment programs mentioned in the literature covered by MEDLINE from 1996 to 2003, along with the components and capabilities of these programs derived from additional sources as needed. According to the literature, the advantages of ...

Background: Self-medication is a challenging issue in health care systems and it seems that health literacy is a determining factor in safe self-medication behaviors. Limited studies are available in this field. Therefore, the aim of this study was to determine the relationship between health literacy and self-medicating behaviors among women referred to comprehensive health care centers Mater...

Literacy facilitators across the archipelago are currently faced with the challenge to integrate local values in functional literacy education programs, because its integration is a new aspect. This makes localized literacy content a hard thing to implement. Yet, if properly conducted, it can lead to improved learner’s basic competencies. In an effort to improve the learner’s competencies based...

introduction: present children are the investments of community in the future. preparing children health which leads to the stability of community health, provided to accurate implementation of educational and health programs in the community and especially in mothers. so it is necessary to determine the relationship between parents' literacy with growth rate in children.   materials and m...