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Squellati, Robin. "Health Literacy: Understanding Basic Information." Creative Nursing 16.3 (2010): 110-114. Web. 24 Nov 2010. This article is about the concern of health literacy in Americans today. It tells of the importance of being able to obtain, processm and understand basic health information. Many of the healthcare providers out there are nurses, and, according to this article, they can help decrease the amount of patients with low health literacy. This article also states that health literacy can have an impact on an idividuals health status and the cost of health care in general. There is a big need for nurses to educate their patients about their health and health literacy in general.

"Health Literacy -> Development and Administration." National Assessment of Adult Literacy. National Center for Education Statistics. Web. 5 December 2010. This website has information regarding the national assesment of health literacy. It has the scoring and results from the tests. It also gives an accurate definition of what health literacy is.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 18 Nov. 2010. This article tells about health literacy in college students. They gave students a health literacy test and although many of the college students did well, a number of them said they didn't think health literacy was important.

Silvestri, Lynette, and Marc Bonis. "Changes in Health Knowledge." Education 130.2 (2209): 271-273. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 3 Nov. 2010 This article is about the health knowledge of college students. It gives statistics from surveys done on college students and analyzes the data. Also, information on what university are doing to improve the health knowledge of their students is given.

Coombes, Rebecca."Developed world is robbing African countries of health staff". bmj.com. BMJ, Volume 230, p.923, April 23, 2005. This article talks about how developed nations are draining all the healthcare professionals out of the developing countries, and that this sort of drain is causing very strained health services in these regions, since most of them have very few to no doctors or nurses in most of the areas. This helps in quickening the depletion of health services and thus health in general, in these developing nations.

By: Sicat, Brigitte L.; Hill, Lilian H.. American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, Nov2005, Vol. 69 Issue 4, p460-466, 7p This article is about giving new Pharmacy students the knowledge of the health literacy problem during this era, and the task to try and solve this issue. They are shown and taught the possible consequences for these people who are illiterate when it comes to health literacy, and the tools to solve this problem.

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.

Mandigo, James, et al. "Physical Literacy for Educators." Physical & Health Education Journal 75.3 (2009): 27-30. SPORTDiscus with Full Text. EBSCO. Web. 18 Nov. 2010. As a teacher, literacy is obviously a major part of all operations. Physical literacy comes in to play on a daily basis for almost all educators. This article explains the importance of literacy when it comes to sports. Understanding a sporting situation is very important for students when it comes to physical education. The knowledge of physical literacy is very important for physical activity and education in general.

Peterson, Sharon, et al. "Positive Changes in Perceptions and Selections of Healthful Foods by College Students After a Short-Term Point-of-Selection Intervention at a Dining Hall." Journal of American College Health 58.5 (2010): 425-431. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 22 Nov. 2010. By putting out flyers, signs, table tents, and numerous other things, these experimenters searched to find the link between these short term items next to healthy food items. They found that after having these out that college students tended to go to the more healthy options when they actually realized what they were. They concluded that not only did this short term effect work but that the college students did not know what their healthy options were and therefore were happy to be notified.

Kicklighter, Jana Regina, et al. "College Freshmen Perceptions of Effective and Ineffective Aspects of Nutrition Education." Journal of American College Health 59.2 (2010): 98-104. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 22 Nov. 2010. Graduate students taught a group of college students more about nutrition and healthy options to eat. Coming out of the experiment students claimed to know more about nutrition and that having a graduate student as their teacher helped them learn. They said this because of their image and likeness to them. The outcome of this experience was a greater understanding of nutrition and advance in this field.

"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.

"Position of the American Dietetic Association: Individualized Nutrition Approaches for Older Adults in Health Care Communities." Journal of the American Dietetic Association 110.10 (2010): 1549-1553. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 15 Nov. 2010. This article explains the importance of the American Dietetics Association for elderly people with health care. Without the ADA most people would not know what their diets should consist. This association assessed the necessities for each persons medical condition. They consult dietitians to make sure that everyone is getting their proper needs. Without the ADA people would not be able to recognize what was necessary in order to be healthy.

The idea of media literacy prompts an increasingly divisive debate between educators who wish to protect children from the commercialization of global markets and those who challenge critical media studies as misguided, outdated, and ineffective. We have provided a historical overview of changing conceptions of media literacy as preparation and protection in market society, arguing that contemporary concerns about children's fast food marketing and sedentary lifestyles call for new approaches to the education of citizen-consumers in a risk society. Our case study demonstrates that a media education programme can provide scaffolding for children's critical thinking about their sedentary lifestyles and media consumption. (Abstract taken from JSTOR.)

J.E. Osagie.W.DE.C.WYK VAN A., AKADE. "IMPORTANCE OF EXERCISE AND NUTRITION IN THE PREVENTION OF ILLNESS AND THE ENHANCEMENT OF HEALTH." Education; Summer2000, Vol. 120 Issue 4, p758-772, 15p, 6 Charts. Academic Search Complete. WEB. November 18, 2010. There is evidence suggesting that people are becoming healthier, but the rate of morbid diease is increasing. Even though the number of people seeing the doctor has increased . The importance of exercise and nutrition in the prevention of illness and improvement of health has brought the need for a review of the scientific literature on the benefits associated with types of physical activity.

Briggs, Marilyn; Fleischhacker, Sheila; Mueller, Constance G. " Position of the Comprehensive School Nutrition Services." Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior 42. 6 (2010): 360-371. OhioLink. Web. 15 Nov. 2010. This article explains how the ADA, SNA and SNE incorporated nutrition into schools. They are the ones who incorporated some health into our everyday teachings at school. These three groups have been advertising for a long time about what is necessary in order to stay healthy and be aware of your health.

Temertzoglou, Ted. "Physical Literacy: Teach Them to Fish, Feed Them for Life." Physical & Health Education Journal 76.1 (2010): 36-39. SPORTDiscus with Full Text. EBSCO. Web. 10 Nov. 2010. Physical education teachers can use many different teaching methods to effectively inform students about physical literacy. It is explained in the article that quality physical education programs give the best opportunity to develop physically literate students. Students need to gain physical at a young age in order for them to exercise effectively and safely throughout their sporting careers.

Koretz, Daniel, "How Do American Students Measure Up? Making Sense of International Comparisons." Future of Children; Spring2009, Vol. 19 Issue 1, p37-51, 15p, 1 Graph This article looks at the U.S education system and international student education in a different light, unlike most of the other articles; it looks at how the U.S Education system, in reality is secondary to that of many foreign country's. His point of comparison is the students emerging from these educational systems. He states how the perception of poor academia amongst U.S children actally holds, since on average U.S kids perform less, and have more studying disabilities than do children from other foreign countries. I personally believe there is a lot of truth in this article based on the facts and realities i myself experience. No offense intended, just academic debate.