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The effects of a short video intervention on digital health literacy skills: Protocol for an online randomised controlled trial

Health Literacy and Communication Open
Background Social media has transformed health communication and has an increasing influence on public health communication. There are growing concerns about how people find good quality health information online, and their ability to use, understand and
Diana Vassilenko, Melody Taba, Lucia Marcello, Tara Haynes, Jenna Smith, Jessica Stokes-Parish, Claire Hudson, Kirsten McCaffery   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Association between health insurance literacy and avoidance of health care services owing to cost [PDF]

, 2018
Importance: Navigating health insurance and health care choices requires considerable health insurance literacy. Although recommended preventive services are exempt from out-of-pocket costs under the Affordable Care Act, many people may remain unaware of
Goold, Susan D, Kieffer, Edith C, Kullgren, Jeffrey T, Politi, Mary C, Scherer, Aaron M, Tipirneni, Renuka   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Critical health literacy and the COVID-19 crisis

Health Promotion International, 2020
Applying critical health literacy has never been more needed than in these days when an infectious disease crisis arrives at a time of information excess and high expectations of controlling health.
T. Abel, D. Mcqueen
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A Skills Gap Analysis of Farmer Directors of US Farmer Cooperatives

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Boards of directors are vital to firm performance and are an integral part of the decision‐making process of any business. Several studies have been conducted that observe corporate or nonprofit board characteristics, skills, and the board's connection to firm performance.
Jody S. Herchenbach, Brian C. Briggeman, Jason S. Bergtold, Aleksan Shanoyan, Sarah A. Low, Brandi Miller   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Electronic health literacy in Swiss-German parents : cross-sectional study of eHealth literacy scale unidimensionality [PDF]

, 2020
Parents often use digital media to search for information related to their children's health. As the quantity and quality of digital sources meant specifically for parents expand, parents' digital health literacy is increasingly important to process the ...
Baumann, Isabel, Dratva, Julia, Jaks, Rebecca, Juvalta, Sibylle, Kerry-Krause, Matthew J.   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Is Youth's Engagement in Agribusiness an Opportunity or a Necessity? A Closer Look at the Situation in South Kivu, Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite the broad focus on necessity‐ and opportunity‐driven entrepreneurship in research and policy, the entrepreneurial dichotomy within the agribusiness context has not been adequately addressed. This study contributes to closing this knowledge gap by examining youth's perceptions of agribusiness through the lens of the push‐pull motivation
Cool Dady Mangole, Paul Martin Dontsop Nguezet, Shiferaw Feleke, Victor Manyong, Kamala Kaghoma Christian, Zoumana Bamba, Tahirou Abdoulaye   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Can health information and decision aids decrease inequity in health care? A systematic review

BMJ Public Health
Objectives A systematic review of studies evaluating evidence-based health information (EBHI) and patient decision aids (PtDAs) was conducted in order to ascertain the extent to which inequity-producing factors have been considered, and in how far people
Christin Ellermann, Jana Sophie Hinneburg, Christoph Wilhelm, Felix Georg Rebitschek   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Overview of the infant and young child feeding policy environment in Pakistan: Federal, Sindh and Punjab context

BMC Public Health, 2017
Background Appropriate infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices have been identified as important for appropriate child growth and development.
Hana Mahmood, Yasmeen Suleman, Tabish Hazir, Durre Samin Akram, Shahadat Uddin, Michael J Dibley, Saleem Abassi, Amara Shakeel, Narjis Kazmi, Anne Marie Thow   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Determinants of Knowledge and Usage of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Agricultural Extension: Evidence From Tennessee Extension Personnel

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the determinants of generative AI (GenAI) knowledge and usage among agricultural extension professionals. Drawing on survey data from agricultural extension personnel in Tennessee, we employ regression analyses and latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) for topic modeling of open‐ended responses to study the knowledge and usage ...
Abdelaziz Lawani, Jason de Koff, James Muriuki, Anna‐Liisa Ihuhwa   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Interventions and methods to prepare, educate or familiarise children and young people for radiological procedures: a scoping review

Insights into Imaging, 2022
Children attending hospital for radiological procedures can experience uncertainty, anxiety and distress; this can result in sub-optimal experiences for children, poor scan quality and the need for radiological procedures to be rescheduled or sedation to
Lucy Bray, Lisa Booth, Victoria Gray, Michelle Maden, Jill Thompson, Holly Saron   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source