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Strategic Numeracy: Self-Serving Reasoning About Health Statistics
Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 2015This research shows that the same people who appear to have low numerical competence when analyzing personally irrelevant health-related numerical information are able to overcome their reasoning shortcomings and make better judgments when they are shown equivalent information that is personally relevant, and when only a sophisticated kind of reasoning
Mata, André +3 more
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A Definition and Operational Framework for Health Numeracy
American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2005Health 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 +3 more
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Health measurements, numeracy, and development
IEE Seminar on Appropriate Medical Technology for Developing Countries, 2002Growth 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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Numeracy in Health and Risk Messaging
2017The 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 +2 more
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Health Literacy, Health Numeracy, and Cognitive Functioning Among Bariatric Surgery Candidates
Obesity Surgery, 2019Inadequate health literacy or numeracy and probable cognitive impairment influence patients' medical outcomes. The study purpose was to examine the prevalence of inadequate health literacy, inadequate health numeracy, and probable cognitive impairment among bariatric surgery candidates and examine associations with undergoing bariatric surgery ...
Leah Hecht +6 more
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Nutrition Label Numeracy: Disparities and Association with Health Behaviors
American Journal of Health Behavior, 2016We investigated the relative importance of nutrition label numeracy and sociodemographic characteristics in predicting health behaviors.Secondary data analysis of data collected from the National Cancer Institute's Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS 4, cycle 3, 2013).
Leticia M, Nogueira +3 more
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Health Literacy and Numeracy: A Comparison of Magazine Health Messages
Howard Journal of Communications, 2014This 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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Parents' health literacy, health numeracy and health information seeking: project report
2019Background: Supporting a child's healthy development is determined, in part, by a parent's ability to seek, access, interpret and effectively utilise health information. This aspect of parenting draws on a set of skills often referred to as health literacy and health numeracy.
Nichols, Sue +3 more
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Statistical numeracy for health
2013Author's comment: Reprinted from: Archives of Internal Medicine, 170(5), 2010, 462 ...
Galesic, M. +1 more
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Numeracy in health and physical education
2012The article presents the numeracy story of a teacher Cowell Area School in South Australia. The teacher states that the project increases awareness of the numeracy demands of the various learning areas and how much time students need to deal with these demands.
Peters, Colleen +3 more
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