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Asthma Numeracy Skill and Health Literacy

Journal of Asthma, 2006
To assess understanding of numerical concepts in asthma self-management instructions, a 4-item Asthma Numeracy Questionnaire (ANQ) was developed and read to 73 adults with persistent asthma. Participants completed the Short Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults (STOFHLA), 12(16%) answered all 4 numeracy items correctly; 6(8%) answered none ...
Andrea J, Apter, Jing, Cheng, Dylan, Small, Ian M, Bennett, Claire, Albert, Daniel G, Fein, Maureen, George, Simone, Van Horne   +7 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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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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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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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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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 numeracy and cognitive decline in advanced age

Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 2013
The study aimed at investigating health numeracy in cognitively well performing healthy participants aged from 50 to 95 years as well as in participants with cognitive impairment, but no dementia (CIND). In cognitively well performing participants (n = 401), demographic variables and cognitive abilities (executive functions, reading comprehension ...
Margarete, Delazer, Georg, Kemmler, Thomas, Benke   +2 more
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Health and numeracy: the role of numeracy skills in health satisfaction and health-related behaviour

ZDM, 2019
Health-related decisions make use of numeracy skills, for example counting medication dosages, extracting health-related information from food packaging or understanding statistical data. Even though the concept of health literacy is often used to explain health disparities (Freedman et al., in American Journal of Preventive Medicine 36:446–451, 2009),
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