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Learners’ experience and perceived impact of a health literacy program in adult basic education: a qualitative study

Public Health Research & Practice, 2020
Objectives and importance of the study: Adult literacy programs aim to empower learners to participate more effectively in everyday life. This includes programs with health content embedded in curricula to target health literacy.
Danielle M Muscat, Suzanne Morony, Don Nutbeam, Julie Ayre, Heather L Shepherd, Sian K Smith , Haryana M Dhillon, Andrew Hayen , Karen Luxford , Wedyan Meshreky, Kirsten McCaffery   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Opportunities for faculty-librarian collaboration in an expanded dentistry curriculum. [PDF]

, 2018
With the increased emphasis on evidence-based practice, developing information literacy (IL), as well as other literacies (e.g., oral), earlier in programs is becoming widely accepted in medicine and allied fields.
Lowe, M. Sara, Quirke, Michelle, Stone, Sean M.   +2 more
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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

Effect of virtual care in type 2 diabetes management – a systematic umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analysis

BMC Health Services Research
Background Diabetes is an increasingly prevalent and costly chronic disease worldwide, and a large cause of unnecessary disease burden. To address the growing burden of diabetes, care models should support management of diabetes in primary care to reduce
Sumathy Ravi, Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz, Cassia Yung, Julie Ayre, Kirsten McCaffery, Glen Maberly, Carissa Bonner   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Examining mental health literacy, help seeking behaviours, and mental health outcomes in UK university students [PDF]

, 2016
PurposeMany university students in the UK experience mental health problems and little is known about their overall mental health literacy and help-seeking behaviours.
Gorczynski, Paul, Hill, Denise, Sims-Schouten, Wendy, Wilson, Clare   +3 more
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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

The Preschool Physical Literacy Assessment Tool: Testing a New Physical Literacy Tool for the Early Years

Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2018
Background: Physical literacy is essential to physical activity across the lifespan. While there is an emerging body of research on physical literacy in school-aged children, the preschool years have largely been ignored.
John Cairney, John Cairney, Heather J. Clark, Maeghan E. James, Drew Mitchell, Dean A. Dudley, Dean A. Dudley, Dean Kriellaars, Dean Kriellaars   +8 more
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Literacy, education and health development: Research priorities [PDF]

, 1982
Robert N. Grosse
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Building Community Amidst the Institutional Whiteness of Graduate Study: Black Joy and Maroon Moves in an Academic Marronage

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reflects on the construction of a supportive community of Black Afro‐diasporic graduate students and their supervisors researching issues relating to race in the field of education in Australia. It draws on the concept of marronage—a term rooted in the fugitive act of becoming a maroon, where enslaved people enacted an escape in ...
Hellen Magoi, Casianus Gemoh, Denise Chapman, Edmund Hypolite, Simon Angok, Melanie Baak, Joel Windle   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Navigating Whiteness in Australia's Anti‐Racism Movement: A Duoethnographic Inquiry by Women of Colour Scholars

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper applies Critical Race Theory (CRT) to explore how whiteness operates within Australia's anti‐racism movement as a structuring force that shapes discourse, practice and policy. Despite the anti‐racism movement offering crucial spaces for resistance and reform, it remains entangled in Australia's settler‐colonial present and systemic ...
Franka Vaughan, Aish Ravi
wiley   +1 more source