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Health literacy: a challenge for American patients and their health care providers [PDF]

, 2000
Ruth M. Parker
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Transition From Primary to Secondary School: Igniting Attendance and Engagement Among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Students Through National Policy Reform

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australia's Closing the Gap reform aims to address disparities experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. There are specific targets focussed on key educational transitions; yet, the transition to secondary education is not a targeted priority.
Azhar Hussain Potia, Kai W. Wheeler, Tracy Woodroffe, Karen Thorpe   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Measuring Child Disadvantage: Comparing Multidimensional and Socioeconomic Approaches for Predicting Developmental Outcomes

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Robust measurement of disadvantage is essential to identifying and addressing inequities in children's development. We tested how a multidimensional framework of child disadvantage performed relative to a traditional socioeconomic position (SEP) approach to predict developmental outcomes.
Wei Hong, Fiona Mensah, Elodie O'Connor, Shuaijun Guo, Sharon Goldfeld, Meredith O'Connor, Cindy Pham, Sarah Gray   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of Annuity Insurance on Savings and Inequality [PDF]

This is the first paper to document the effect of health on the migration propensities of African Americans in the American past. Using both IPUMS and the Colored Troops Sample of the Civil War Union Army Data, I estimate the effects of literacy and ...
Avia Spivak, John B. Shoven, Laurence J. Kotlikoff   +2 more
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Health literacy and primary health care [PDF]

, 2011
People with low levels of health literacy report poorer health status and experience poorer health outcomes compared to those with good health literacy.
Bywood, Petra Teresia, Howard, Sara Louise, Jackson-Bowers, Eleanor   +2 more
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Health literacy: addressing the health and education divide [PDF]

, 2001
Ilona Kickbusch
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National and International Monitoring of Student Literacy and Numeracy Attainment: The Case for Rigorous Macro and Micro Analysis

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In her 2024 paper Are Australian students' academic skills declining? Interrogating 25 years of national and international standardised assessment data, Larsen compiled an impressive summary of major international (PISA, PIRLS and TIMSS) and national (NAPLAN) standardised assessments pertaining to literacy and numeracy.
Pamela C. Snow, Tanya A. Serry, Jennifer Buckingham, Lorraine S. Hammond, Stephen Dinham, Eamon Charles, Tessa A. Weadman, Nathanial R. Swain, Susan Hiland, Tessa Daffern   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Relation of health literacy to gonorrhoea related care [PDF]

, 2001
J.Dennis Fortenberry
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Patterns of Multisystem Involvement in Adolescence: Implications for Health, Education and Social Services in the Northern Territory of Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Dual‐system young people who crossover between child protection and youth justice systems experience a range of health and educational issues. However, very little research has examined the health and education needs of these young people, especially in Indigenous populations. A retrospective cohort study was established using individual‐level
Vincent Y. F. He, Bernard Leckning, Tamika Williams, Gary Robinson, Steven Guthridge   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mental health literacy in developing countries [PDF]

, 2001
Malik H. Mubbashar, Saeed Farooq
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