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Mancuso, Josephine M. "Assessment and measurement of health literacy: An integrative review if the literature." Nursing and Health Sciences 11.1 (Mar 2009): 77-89. Web. 24 Nov 2010. The main purpose of this article is to relate health literacy to many other aspects of healthcare, including health knowledge, health behaviors, health outcomes, and the costs of healthcare. This article is trying to find out what is already being done to make people more health literate and what can be done to improve this in the future. Graphs are also shown in this article of two instruments used to measure health literacy: Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine (REALM) and the Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults(TOFHLA). It shows the studies on these graphs and the conclusions that they came up with about the health literacy in Americans. The main goal in all of this research is too improve health care in all of its aspects.

Ickes, Melinda J., and Randall Cottrell. "Health Literacy in College Students." Journal of American College Health. 1 Mar 2010. 58.5: 491-498. Web. 19 Nov 2010. This articles purpose was to study the health literacy of college students. This article proposed a study of college juniors and seniors to determine what their actual health literacy was and what health literacy was expected of them. This study had many factors in their students that they too into consideration, including gender, race, and declared major. The study concluded that over 98% of the college students that they researched had an adequate literacy level.

Rowlands, Gillian. "Health Literacy and Long-Term Conditions" Primary Health Care 19.7 (Sept 2009): 16-20. Web. 24 Nov 2010. This article talks about the importance of one's ability to understand the health information that is given to them. This is information is important for people when making decisions regarding their health. There is also a case study about a middle aged man and how his health literacy affects his health. This article also states what can be done to improve an individual's health literacy.

This articles purpose was to study the health literacy of college students. This article proposed a study of college juniors and seniors to determine what their actual health literacy was and what health literacy was expected of them. This study had many factors in their students that they too into consideration, including gender, race, and declared major. The study concluded that over 98% of the college students that they researched had an adequate literacy level.

Deshpande, Sameer, Michael Basil and Debra Basil. "Factors Influencing Healthy Eating Habits Among College Students." Health Marketing Scholarly 26.2 (2009) 145-164. Ebsocohost. Web. 22 Nov. 2010. Poor eating habits are an important public health issue that has large health and economic implications. Many food preferences are established early, but because people make more and more independent eating decisions as they move through adolescence, the transition to independent living during the university days is an important event. Numerous studies have shown that college students often have poor eating habits. Students tend to eat fewer fruits and vegetables on a daily basis\nand report high intake of high-fat, high-calorie foods.To study the phenomenon of food selection, the heath belief model was applied to predict the likelihood of healthy eating among university students. Numerous studies have shown that college students often have poor eating habits.

The purpose of this study was to assess the health literacy levels, and the potential importance of healthy literacy, of college students. Ickes, Melinda J., and Randall Cottrell. "Health Literacy in College Students." Journal of American College Health 58.5 (2010): 491-498. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 17 Nov. 2010.

Ickes, Melinda, Randall Cottrell. "Health Literacy in College Students." Journal of American College Health 58.5 (Mar/Apr2010): 491-8. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 18 Nov. 2010. This article is about a study done on college students to test their health literacy. The study tested students ability to recognize and understand health terms and labels.

Hill, Terrence D., et al. "Victimization in Early Life and Mental Health in Adulthood: An Examination of the Mediating and Moderating Influences of Psychosocial Resources." Journal of Health and Social Behavior 51.1 (2010): 48-63. ERIC. EBSCO. Web. 18 Nov. 2010. Even though many studies have shown the long-term effects of childhood abuse on mental health in adulthood, not many have actually proven this to be true. Low-income black and Hispanic low-income women with children living in major cities in the U.S. were studied and no concrete signs of physical assault were shown in relation to their low self-esteem.

Burwell, Cynthia, Lori Dewald, and Jim Grizzell. "Healthy Campus 2010: Midcourse review." American Journal of Health Studies 25.2 (2010): 102-110. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 20 Nov. 2010. This articles evaluates the importance of improving health for College Students. It has been proven that if you have a healthier life, you are more likely to do better academically. There is a very close relationship between health and doing well academically. It is important for everyone to know about their health in order to do their best.

The food choices students in college make, could set them up for future health problems in the future. Research has shown that food served in dorms are comparable to food served in a fastfood restraunt. Fast food is attracting to college students because of a limited budget, easy access, and peer pressure because their friends are going to eat fastfood as well. Eating fast foods may have little impact on a teen or young adult's health in the short term; but more studies are showing that a poor diet during the teen and childhood years can set a teen up for health problems later '" including type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart disease. Fast food may taste good now, but could be more costly later on.

Jenaro, Cristina, et al. "Problematic internet and cell-phone use: Psychological, behavioral, and health correlates." Addiction Research & Theory 15.3 (2007): 309-320. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 21 Nov. 2010. Recently, more studies have been performed to examine newly developed addictions to technologies such as the Internet and cell phones. Some of these studies have found that full-time students are more at risk to develop these addictions and that these addictions are related to some psychological and behavioral disorders. To see if these observations are correct, a study was performed in which three hundred and thirty-seven college students participated. The first thing that was determined was that there was not a correlation between internet or cell phone over-use and substance abuse or gambling addiction. The second was that there was a correlation between technology over-use and psychological disorders such as anxiety, depression, and insomnia. The third was that healthy behavior and technology over-use are not related.

Korinth, Anne, Sonja Schiess, and Joachim Westenhoefer. "Eating behaviour and eating disorders in students of nutrition sciences." Public Health Nutrition 13.1 (2010): 32-37. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 15 Nov. 2010. This article talks about how some students who study nutrition are more likely to develop eating disorders. People can not decide whether or not the students are making better nutritional decisions or not. It comes to the conclusion that students who know more about health and nutrition are more likely to develop these disorders because they are more aware of their intake. Therefore, there is no specific type of student which is affected by nutrition and health.

Kwan, Matthew Yiu Wing, et al. "Student Reception, Sources, and Believability of Health-Related Information." Journal of American College Health 58.6 (May/Jun2010): 555-562. Academic Search Complete. Web. 18 Nov. 2010. This article is about education of health topics. They did a study to find out what different health topics college students knew about and where they learned about the topics. It then goes in to how believable the students thought the different sources were.

Yiou, Fan, et al. "Associations between body mass index, weight control concerns and behaviors, and eating disorder symptoms among non-clinical Chineseadolescents." BMC Public Health 10.(2010): 314-325. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 15 Nov. 2010. Although this article's data is taken from China, the data is also relevant here. A study was taken from both men and women and their body mass index. After the study the scientists reviewed that most of the adolescents scored very high in having problems or disorders. I can only conclude that here in the United States that we would have an even bigger problem than China.

Boyle, Jennifer, Nicole Larose. "The Personal Beliefs, The Environment and College Students' Exercise and Eating Behaviors." American Journal of Health Studies 23.4 (2008) 195-200. Ebsocohost. Web. 22 Nov. 2010. College students are at risk for overweight/obesity. It was hypothesized that better nutrition and physical activity would be related to healthy environmental perceptions and personal beliefs.Sixty-five percent of American adults are overweight. The greatest increases in overweight and obesity occur in persons between 18-29 years of age.Eating habits are also a problem in both the general population as well as among college students. Only 28% of persons over the age of two are meeting daily recommendations for fruit intake and even fewer 3% are meeting daily recommendations for vegetable intake. College students often exceed the recommended daily limit for saturated fat intake. A study by Racette found that more than half the students in their sample reported eating high-fat fried or fast foods at least three times per week.

"Music & Success in Life." Guitar Lessons, Piano Lessons, Voice Lessons, NYC, Manhattan, NY, Brooklyn, Queens, Long Island, New Jersey, Boston, Chicago. Web. 21 Nov. 2010. . Article talked about the many advantage that music has over a person's personality and behaviors. Some of the examples were "Studying music encourages self-discipline and diligence, traits that carry over into intellectual pursuits and that lead to effective study and work habits". Also other examples how music encouraged a community and brought groups together. It then went on the explain the health benefits of music therapy which will be great to use in my paper when I am explaining the benefits music therapy could have on other countries where actual medicine is not easily accessible.

Johnson, Valerie R.; Jacobson, Kara L.; Gazmararian, Julie A.; Blake, Sarah C.. Patient Education & Counseling, Apr2010, Vol. 79 Issue 1, p14-24, 11p To get to this article after going to the link form this bookmark, click the find it button on the left side of the page, and then on the next page that shows up, click the link that says full text of the is article in the EJC, in the upper left side of the page, then either the pdf or html version will be fine. This article was written on a study done on the affect of social support on limited-literacy patients and there willingness to get help when it comes to reading instructions on their medication and, basic health literacy. What they found out was that unless there was someone they could trust imensly, they would not seek help when it came to understanding directions, or getting info on health literacy.

Pheifer, Todd. "The Effect of Alcohol Consumption by College Students on their Study Habits ." Helium.com. DMCA, n.d. Web. 21 Nov. 2010 This article explains what happens to a student's study habits when they drink. It discusses how although a student usually isn't drinking while doing their school work, the hangovers that occur after drinking cause alot of the problems. It also touches about the effects alcohol has on a college student's health, for example drinking causes weight gain. The final topic the article discusses is how alcohol creates a major distraction and causes students to focus less on school.

Nagarajan,Rajaram, Joseph P. Neglia, Denis R. Clohisy, Yutaka Yasui, Mark Greenberg, Melissa Hudson, Michael A. Zevon, Jean M. Tersak, Arthur Ablin, and Leslie L. Robison. "Education, employment, insurance, and marital status among 694 survivors of pediatric lower extremity bone tumors." Cancer 97 (2003): n. pag. Web. 15 Nov. 2010. The article studies the effects that childhood cancer had on people. It talks about how it effects their education, marriage, employment, ect. In the conclusion the results showed that the patients had significant differences in education and health insurence when compared with their siblings. Gender also played a big effect in the study.

Articals teaches how music can be used as a "technology" towards health healing and recovery. Study was conducted on 22 people ages 34-65 with long term illnesses and diseases. 

King III, Charles, Michael Siegel, David H. Jernigan, Laura Wulach, Craig Ross, Karen Dixon, and Joshua Ostroff. "Adolescent Exposure to Alcohol Advertising in Magazines: An Evaluation of Advertising Placement in Relation to Underage Youth Readership." Journal of Adolescent Health 45.6 (2009): 626-33. Web. 16 Nov. 2010. In this study, it was proposed that the alcoholic drinks that are most often consumed by minors, are often put in magazines as advertisements that underage men and women are most likely to read. The study took place between 2002-06 and the results were not friendly. It was obvious after the study concluded, alcoholic drinks popular to minors were frequently put in the magazines with higher youth readership. Alcohol companies are focusing their ads to seek out the younger crowd through the popular magazines they choose to read. Although just an abstract, it will make a good reference on studies that have gained valuable research.