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The Numeracy of Good Health

2017
The inclusion of health as a school subject has traditionally been a means by which young people are formally educated about appropriate foods, matters of hygiene, building and maintaining relationships, understanding ‘self’ as a developing individual.
Sellars, Maura, Davidoff, Derek
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A Definition and Operational Framework for Health Numeracy

American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2005
Health numeracy has often been overshadowed by health literacy, either ignored completely or identified simply as a subset of health literacy. Only now are researchers beginning to realize the importance of health numeracy as a separate entity. One of the first steps in this evolution is to establish a distinct definition for health numeracy, something
Amanda L, Golbeck, Carolyn R, Ahlers-Schmidt, Angelia M, Paschal, S Edwards, Dismuke   +3 more
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Maternal health literacy and health numeracy conceptualizations in public health: A scoping review

Health & Social Care in the Community, 2022
Despite unprecedented advancement in educational opportunities and access to information, maternal health literacy (MHL) and health numeracy (HN) skills remain low in North America. By enhancing MHL, the educated civic public-those who have the capacity, skills, and knowledge to apply prose and numerical health information-engages more proactively in ...
Khajeei, Dahlia, Neufeld, Hannah, Donelle, Lorie, PhD, RN, FCAN, Meyer, Samantha B, Neiterman, Elena, Ike, Nnenna A., Li, Janet Z.   +6 more
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Assessing Values for Health: Numeracy Matters

Medical Decision Making, 2001
Background. Patients’ values are fundamental to decision models, cost-effectiveness analyses, and pharmacoeconomic analyses. The standard methods used to assess how patients value different health states are inherently quantitative. People without strong quantitative skills (i.e., low numeracy) may not be able to complete these tasks in a meaningful ...
S, Woloshin, L M, Schwartz, M, Moncur, S, Gabriel, A N, Tosteson   +4 more
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Statistical Numeracy for Health

2012
Statistical numeracy is essential for understanding health-related risks and making informed medical decisions. However, this concept has not been investigated on the level of the general population or compared cross-culturally. In this chapter, we describe research that sought (1) to investigate differences in the level of statistical numeracy between
Mirta Galesic, Rocio Garcia-Retamero
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Numeracy Education for Health Care Providers: A Scoping Review

Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, 2023
Introduction: Health numeracy (numerical literacy) refers to an individual's ability to use numerical information to make effective health decisions. Numeracy is fundamental in the role of a health care provider, forming the basis of evidence-based medicine and effective patient-provider communication.
Casey Goldstein, Nicole Woods, Rebecca MacKinnon, Rouhi Fazelzad, Bhajan Gill, Meredith Elana Giuliani, Tina Papadakos, Qinge Wei, Janet Papadakos   +8 more
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Numeracy in Health and Risk Messaging

2017
Abstract The complexity of numerical information about health risks and benefits places demands on people that many are not prepared to meet. For example, much information about health is communicated numerically, such as treatment risks and effectiveness, lifestyle benefits, and the chances of side effects from medication.
Priscila G Brust-Renck, Julia Nolte, Valerie F Reyna   +2 more
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Numeracy, Health Numeracy, and Older Immigrants’ Primary Language: An Observation-Oriented Exploration

Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 2016
ABSTRACTHealth information is often provided in number formats not equally present in all languages. We explored the relation between immigrants’ primary language and comprehension of context-free and health numeric information presented in English. The study compared speakers of Kikuyu (Kenya) and Mandarin (China), two languages that differ in the ...
Sospeter K. Gatobu, Jose F. Arocha, Laurie Hoffman-Goetz   +2 more
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Health Literacy and Numeracy: A Comparison of Magazine Health Messages

Howard Journal of Communications, 2014
This content analysis of Cosmopolitan and Latina magazines (N = 348) examines health news stories read by millions of young U.S. women for factors related to health literacy.
María E. Len-Ríos, Amanda Hinnant
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Health measurements, numeracy, and development

IEE Seminar on Appropriate Medical Technology for Developing Countries, 2002
Growth monitoring was introduced in the 60's and spread throughout the South in the 70's. In the 80's cost benefit analysis showed that, unlike immunisation and oral rehydration, it had no influence on nutrition levels or mortality. The reason became apparent in discussion with those concerned with primary education.
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