The relationship between poor literacy skills and health status is now well recognized and better understood. Interest in this relationship has led to the emergence of the concept of health literacy. The concept has emerged from two different roots - in clinical care and in public health. This paper describes the two distinctive concepts that reflect health literacy, respectively, as a clinical...

Background: With an increase in the number of disciplines contributing to health literacy scholarship, we sought to explore the nature of interdisciplinary research in the field. Objective: This study sought to describe disciplines that contribute to health literacy research and to quantify how disciplines draw from and contribute to an interdisciplinary evidence base, as measured by citation n...

Patients vary in their preferences towards involvement in medical decision-making. Previous research, however, gives no clear explanation for this observed variation in their involvement. One possible explanation might be health literacy. Health literacy refers to personal characteristics and social resources needed for people to access, understand and use information to make decisions about th...

This paper discusses a group of young children's literacy practices as they collected data for an ethnographically principled, participatory research project. Institutions schooling can ‘fix’ powerful conceptualisations within pre-defined boundaries. Educational into in-school focus on their socialisation these ‘fixed’ literacies rather than capacity to develop new practices. During the early s...

Key findings of emergent literacy research conclude that emergent literacy experiences correlate with later reading success and that emergent literacy intervention for children with special needs is essential. As a group with special needs, children with Down syndrome require emergent literacy intervention. They may attain functional literacy skills and their language development determines the...

Within the field of literacy research, there is an increasing recognition that the advent of information and communication technology (ICT) necessitates a broader conception of literacy. A new definition of literacy is required to encompass not just the traditional literacy, such as the ability to read and write, but also multiple literacies related to multimedia technology. Citing Leu, Kinzer,...