نتایج جستجو برای: literacy

تعداد نتایج: 31994  

Journal: :Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique 2006
Lynn Chiarelli Peggy Edwards

Policies in literacy and health need to address two perspectives: how basic literacy skills influence the health of populations and individuals; and health literacy--the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions. There are three potential areas for action to improve literacy ...

Journal: :Informatics in Education 2005
Lina Markauskaite

Understanding about the objectives of ICT literacy and the ways in which it should be enhanced vary. A comprehensive theoretical framework for the analysis of notions of ICT literacy is presented. Current notions of ICT literacy in different segments of policymaking and implementation in Australia are analysed and compared. Two dimensions (intended and implemented) and three theoretical perspec...

2013
Xinying Sun Yuhui Shi Qingqi Zeng Yanling Wang Weijing Du Nanfang Wei Ruiqian Xie Chun Chang

BACKGROUND Health literacy has been defined as the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand the basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions. Currently, few studies have validated the causal pathways of determinants of health literacy through the use of statistical modeling. The purpose of the present study was to deve...

2013
Vanessa Rodríguez Allen D. Andrade Rocio García-Retamero Ramanakumar Anam Remberto Rodríguez Miriam Lisigurski Joseph Sharit Jorge G. Ruiz

Studies reveal high levels of inadequate health literacy and numeracy in African Americans and older veterans. The authors aimed to investigate the distribution of health literacy, numeracy, and graph literacy in these populations. They conducted a cross-sectional survey of veterans receiving outpatient care and measured health literacy, numeracy, graph literacy, shared decision making, and tru...

Journal: :international journal of health policy and management 2015
rocco palumbo

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...

Journal: :Health promotion international 2009
Anita Peerson Margo Saunders

'Health literacy' refers to accessing, understanding and using information to make health decisions. However, despite its introduction into the World Health Organization's Health Promotion Glossary, the term remains a confusing concept. We consider various definitions and measurements of health literacy in the international and Australian literature, and discuss the distinction between the broa...

2017
Dushad Ram Suhas Chandran Basavana Gowdappa

Objective: To determine the suicide and depression literacy among healthcare professional students. Methods: Three hundred thirty nine healthcare professional students were assessed with socio-demographic and clinical proforma, depression literacy scale, and suicide literacy scale. Results: There was low score on measure of depression and suicide literacy. Paramedical have lower literacy of sui...

Journal: :Dimensions of critical care nursing : DCCN 2012
Racquel Ingram Donald D Kautz

Low health literacy in patients and families has been called a silent epidemic. Although there is a great deal of literature to assist nurses to address health literacy problems, little has focused on overcoming low health literacy in critical care. This article provides a definition of health literacy, explores how Baker's health literacy model can be applied to the critical care environment u...

Journal: :J. Community Informatics 2016
Alan Freihof Tygel Rosana Kirsch

Paulo Freire is the patron of education in Brazil. His main work the Popular Education pedagogy influences many educators all over the world who believe in education as a way of liberating poor oppressed people. One of the outcomes of Freire's work is a literacy method, developed in the 1960's. In this paper, we propose the adoption of elements of Freire's Literacy Method for use in a pedagogic...

2004
Elizabeth Birr Moje Daniel A. Wagner Richard L. Venezky

“Literacy is at the heart of world development and human rights,” writes Federico Mayor in the opening line of his foreword to Literacy: An International Handbook.’ Although this quote comes from only one of the texts from which this essay builds, it could actually be the opening line of any of the three books: Literacy as a Moral Imperative, Literacy for the Twenty-First Century, and Literacy:...

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