Everyday decision-making in later life: the role of cognitive reserve and cognitive functions [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyObjectivesThis study aimed to investigate decision-making competence of midlife and older adults, and its relationship with cognitive reserve and cognitive functions.MethodsA total of 120 healthy adults (aged 50 to 90 years) completed a decision-making ...
Katharina Thaler +8 more
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Examining Associations between Self-Rated Health and Proficiency in Literacy and Numeracy among Immigrants and U.S.-Born Adults: Evidence from the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 This paper uses data from the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) to analyze the relationship between self-reported health (SRH) and literacy and numeracy proficiency for immigrants compared to U.S.-born respondents and
Esther Prins, Shannon Monnat
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The Second Decade of Numeracy: Entering the Seas of Literacy [PDF]
Numeracy, 2019 This multipurpose editorial explores and tries to count the many types of literacy that are referred to by name in Wikipedia and Numeracy. Wikipedia’s Category:Literacy page identifies 44 kinds of literacy that are the subject of articles, ranging from ...
H.L. Vacher
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BMC Research Notes, 2021 Objective To compare an objective with a subjective numeracy assessment for association with self-reported health status, where numeracy refers to “the degree to which individuals have the capacity to access, process, interpret, communicate, and act on ...
Natalie C. Benda +4 more
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Probability Numeracy and Health Insurance Purchase [PDF]
De Economist, 2015 This paper provides new field evidence on the role of probability numeracy in health insurance purchase. Our regression results, based on rich survey panel data, indicate that the expenditure on two out of three measures of health insurance first rises with probability numeracy and then falls again.
Dillingh, Rik +2 more
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Perspective: The Role of Numeracy in Health Care [PDF]
Journal of Health Communication, 2008 Numeracy, the “ability to understand and use numbers in daily life” is an important but understudied component of literacy. Numeracy-related tasks are common in healthcare and include understanding nutrition information, interpreting blood sugar readings and other clinical data, adjusting medications, and understanding probability in risk communication.
Russell L, Rothman +3 more
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Disrupting Dominant Discourses: A (Re)Introduction to Social Practice Theories of Adult Numeracy [PDF]
, 2018 The role of dominant discourse in constructing a deficit view of adult numeracy is examined, using reports from recent international surveys of adult skills as illustrative examples.
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Children’s early numeracy in England, Finland and People’s Republic of China [PDF]
, 2008 This research investigated the similarities and differences between countries in young children’s early numeracy skills related to age, culture and gender.
Liu, Yan +9 more
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Enhanced numeracy skills following team-based learning in United States pharmacy students: a longitudinal cohort study [PDF]
Journal of Educational Evaluation for Health Professions, 2022 Purpose The literature suggests that the ability to numerate cannot be fully understood without accounting for the social context in which mathematical activity is represented.
Rob Edwin Carpenter +3 more
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Improving numeracy through values affirmation enhances decision and STEM outcomes. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Greater numeracy has been correlated with better health and financial outcomes in past studies, but causal effects in adults are unknown. In a 9-week longitudinal study, undergraduate students, all taking a psychology statistics course, were randomly ...
Ellen Peters +8 more
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