INTRODUCTION In policy and practice, early literacy provision has long been supported by charities and other agencies working in homes, communities, libraries and other settings, as well as schools. In promoting innovation or intervention, these diverse groups, building on different assumptions about literacy and literacy learning, have designed programmes, provided guidelines and/or refined mo...

Background: Health care professionals need more and better training about health literacy and clear communication to provide optimal care to populations with low health literacy. A large number of health literacy and clear communication practices have been identified in the literature, but health professions educators, administrators, and policymakers have lacked guidance regarding which practi...

Critical literacy is an important and highly relevant concept to hospital and health sciences librarians: the theory reflects the value our profession gives to informed, contex-tual, critical readings of the research literature; the importance of context in evidence-based practice ; and the inclusion and consideration of the patient's and family's social or cultural needs, values, and preferenc...

Health care professionals often lack adequate knowledge about health literacy and the skills needed to address low health literacy among patients and their caregivers. Many promising practices for mitigating the effects of low health literacy are not used consistently. Improving health literacy training for health care professionals has received increasing emphasis in recent years. The developm...

BACKGROUND Scholars describe poor health literacy as a "silent epidemic," which is challenging the functioning of healthcare systems all over the world. Health literacy is mainly meant as an individual trait which concerns the ability to obtain, process, and understand basic health information in order to effectively navigate the health system. Low health literate patients perceive poor self-ef...

The ability to read and write for a variety of purposes is essential to success in school and in contemporary society. The purpose of this investigation was to conduct an exhaustive review of the literature and a meta-analysis of literacy research in the field of deaf education. Computer and manual searches of 40 years of peer-reviewed journal articles were conducted. A total of 964 articles re...

BACKGROUND Low health literacy is a common problem among older adults. It is often suggested to be associated with poor adherence. This suggested association implies a need for effective adherence interventions in low health literate people. However, previous reviews show mixed results on the association between low health literacy and poor adherence. A systematic meta-review of systematic revi...

SkillSum is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Natural Language Generation (NLG) system that produces short feedback reports for people who are taking online tests which check their basic literacy and numeracy skills. In this paper, we describe the SkillSum system and application, focusing on three challenges which we believe are important ones for many systems which try to generate feedback r...

Epidemiology: Residents of Ontario learned recently that 29% of the province's grade 10 students had failed either the reading or writing component of a standardized literacy test, 1 calling into question the quality of high school education in the province as well as the validity of the standardized test used to measure this performance. Undoubtedly , postmortem debate will identify a few fata...

This paper draws upon Giddens’s Structuration Theory to provide a conceptualization of information literacy, which conventionally has been limited to librarian and educational studies, and usually perceived at the level of individual skills. The structurational conceptualization expands it to be more integrated with social, cultural, and institutional dimensions. An empirical study in two remot...