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Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives - 3 views
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An archive, compiled by OSU, with materials for teaching the literacy narrative as well as a database of student narratives.
Overweight and lifestyle behaviors of low socioeco...[BMC Pediatr. 2009] - PubMed Result - 3 views
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This article is about a study that was done with children and there parents. It tested the correlation between the chidren's BMI and the parents BMI. They looked at the children's lifestyle behavior and practices compared to the children weight status.
Measuring Adult Literacy in Health Care: Performance of the Newest Vital Sign - 0 views
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This article is about a study/experiment that was done with a group of adults that had visited a health clinic. The tested the performance of new vital signs, and if people were able to read them. This tested there literacy levels, and they had other ways of testing there literacy levels.
High School Students' Perceptions on Potential Links Between Media and Health Behaviors - 1 views
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This article discusses how younger adults, and students health behaviors can be effected by the media they watch. About 84 students were tested in this and also covered other subjects like its effect on eating disorders, behavior, and violence.
An Investigation of the Relationship Between Health Literacy and Social Com... - 1 views
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This article discusses a study that was done to show the correlation between health literacy and social communication. It is based off of older adults who usually have more health problems. It was showed in this study that also the older adults tend to have more chronic illnesses, they have very low health literacy
Health Information Literacy: A Road Map for Poverty Alleviation in the Deve... - 0 views
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This article mainly discusses the way that poverty is effecting people. It focuses a lot on the undeveloped countries and the way people are living in poverty. It also explains different aspects of health literacy and gives background information about it. It also talks about how people living in poverty struggle with health literacy.
Health Literacy, Social Support, and Health Status Among Older Adults - 1 views
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This article discussed if social support is correlated with older adults health literacy. They also studied to see if the adults health was directly effected because of there health literacy.
Label Literacy - 1 views
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This article talks about how nutrition and the food items that are contained in the product are listed on the side of the product. This article is very interesting because it talks about how many labels over exaggerate exactly how health the product is. "fat free", or "low carb" foods are actually not healthy to eat. It discusses how looks can be deceiving when eating/buying certain products.
Patient Understanding of Food Labels: The Role of Literacy and Numeracy - 0 views
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This article discusses a study that was done to test the understanding of patients literacy of food labels. It was tested by a test known as, REALM, and given to adults. This test showed that doctors need to provide nutrition information to patients to improve there health before and after surgery.
Understanding the Health Literacy of America: Results of the National Asses... - 0 views
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This article defines exactly what health literacy is, and goes through different background information. It talks about the NAAL, which has to do with adult literacy. It also discusses and goes through the NAAL survey that many adults have taken
Mental health literacy among Internet users - 2 views
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This is a study that tested the mental health literacy of internet users. They measured different levels of depression through these test. They learned that if they intervene with these mental health disorders earlier, than they are easily fixed/switched by different means.
"Partnering with Seniors for Better Health": computer use and Internet heal... - 0 views
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This article is about an experiment that was done to test the knowledge of elderly adults. There were 137 participants and the test lasted for about five weeks. The test proved that if the elderly were given a course about internet and computer use, they were more open to using it and did not stress or have anxiety over it. They also were given internet/computer courses about health that improved there health literacy.
The evolving concept of health literacy - 0 views
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This article expresses how health literacy and the understanding of that concept has changed through the past years. People are more aware of poor health, and of poor literacy. There are new researches, and other things being done to help those with poor health literacy and other things
The Council on Medical Education and Lifelong Learning - 0 views
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This article is about the APA, which is the American Psychiatric Association. It talked about how doctors and other members meet in groups to discuss how learning needs to change to benefit others. They really stressed the importance of internet learning and how it would benefit doctors, students, and patients.
Health Literacy in Clinical Practice - 0 views
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This article discusses the importance of relaying information from doctors to patients. It states how important it is for the patients to actually understand the information they are being told. All people have different levels of literacy that doctors need to be made aware of.The article stressed the importance of doctors being clear and precise to there patients and not using 'doctor lingo'.
Towards a health literacy curriculum - 0 views
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In this article they start out with background information about health and nutrition literacy. Then it is explained how important it is for people, and students to be made aware of this. It talks about the importance of having trainers and professionals help schools and people to increase there health.
Can your patients read this - 0 views
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This article first discusses what health literacy is, and has some background information. It then discusses how many patients have very low literacy levels. It talks about how health literacy can change how a patient recovers or understands there treatments
Patients' perspectives of the doctor-patient relationship and information giving across... - 0 views
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This article discusses how the doctors and patients relationship is. It talks about how different patients have different literacy levels that the doctor should understand. many patients feel as though they are not able to understand what there doctors are trying to prevail to them.