Assessing Sensitivity of Machine Learning Predictions.A Novel Toolbox with an Application to Financial Literacy [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Despite their popularity, machine learning predictions are sensitive to potential unobserved predictors. This paper proposes a general algorithm that assesses how the omission of an unobserved variable with high explanatory power could affect the predictions of the model.
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Use of Short Assessment of Health Literacy for Spanish Adults (SAHLSA-50) to Determine the Health Literacy Rate of the Spanish-speaking Population in an Urban Emergency Department [PDF]
, 2017 Background: The Hispanic population presents a great opportunity in terms of potential improvements in clinical outcomes and cost reduction for interventions through assessing and improving health literacy.
Duncan, Martin +7 more
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The Role of Cultural Competency on Treatment Adherence and Health Literacy for Persons of Color Living with HIV/AIDS [PDF]
, 2020 The Role of Cultural Competency on Treatment Adherence and Health Literacy for Persons of Color Living with HIV/AIDS Rohan Arora, Depts. of Psychology, Medical Humanities, & Chemistry, with Dr. Faye Pritchard, VCU Honors College For decades, the American
Arora, Rohan
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Essential Updates 2023/2024: Recent Advances of Multimodal Approach in Patients for Gastric Cancer
Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Gastric cancer remains a major global health burden, especially in East Asia. Recent years have brought significant advances in multimodal management, including surgery, perioperative chemotherapy, immunotherapy, and supportive care. This review summarizes key updates from 2023 to 2024, focusing on surgical innovations, perioperative systemic ...
Katsutoshi Shoda +3 more
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BMC Public HealthBackground During the COVID-19 pandemic, health literacy was found to be an asset to manage health-related information. The HLS-COVID-Q22 has been developed to measure COVID-19 health literacy.
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Estimating Sibling Spillover Effects with Unobserved Confounding Using Gain-Scores [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 A growing area of research in epidemiology is the identification of health-related sibling spillover effects, or the effect of one individual's exposure on their sibling's outcome. The health and health care of family members may be inextricably confounded by unobserved factors, rendering identification of spillover effects within families particularly
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Wikipedia editing and information literacy: A case study [PDF]
, 2017 Purpose: This paper aims to evaluate the success of a Wikipedia editing assessment designed to improve the information literacy skills of a cohort of first-year undergraduate health sciences students.
Dawe, Lydia, Robinson, Ainslie
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American Journal of Community Psychology, Volume 75, Issue 3-4, Page 278-291, June 2025.Abstract Immigrants and refugees in the United States often face significant barriers in accessing social services, including mental health support, legal assistance, ESL or related education, housing, vocational training, workforce resources, transportation, and citizenship support. This article explores the strengths and challenges of community‐based
Rooshey Hasnain +7 more
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Redesigning pictographs for patients with low health literacy and establishing preliminary steps for delivery via smart phones. [PDF]
, 2016 BackgroundPictographs (or pictograms) have been widely utilized to convey medication related messages and to address nonadherence among patients with low health literacy.
Berry, Donna L +7 more
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Patient empowerment in Flemish hospital wards : a cross-sectional study
, 2021 Objective: Measuring empowerment of patients on Flemish hospital wards by the short form of the Patient Activation Measure (PAM-13) and exploring the association between patient empowerment and patient-centred care, health literacy, patient- and context ...
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