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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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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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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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برنامج في الرياضيات الطبية قائم على التکامل المعرفي في زمن جائحة کورونا Covid 19 لتنمية الثقافة العددية الصحية Health Numeracy، والهوية الرياضياتية لدى طلاب المرحلة الإعدادية [PDF]
مجلة تربويات الرياضيات, 2022 ملخص البحث: هدف البحث الحالي إلى تعرف فاعلية برنامج في الرياضيات الطبية قائم على التکامل المعرفي في زمن جائحة کورونا Covid 19 لتنمية الثقافة العددية الصحية، والهوية الرياضياتية لدى طلاب المرحلة الإعدادية؛ ولتحقيق هذا الهدف استخدمت الباحثة المنهج شبه ...
سحر ماهر خميس إبراهيم
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Understanding Health Risk Comprehension: The Role of Math Anxiety, Subjective Numeracy, and Objective Numeracy [PDF]
Medical Decision Making, 2020 Background. Numeracy skills are important for medical decision making as lower numeracy is associated with misinterpreting statistical health risks. Math anxiety, characterized by negative emotions about numerical tasks, and lower subjective numeracy (i.e., self-assessments of numerical competence) are also associated with poor risk comprehension ...
Jonathan J. Rolison +2 more
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Clinician Numeracy: The Development of an Assessment Measure for Doctors
Numeracy, 2016 Low numeracy in doctors poses serious risks to patient safety because inaccurate drug dose calculation may lead to under-treatment or overdose, while erroneous data interpretation affects medical decision making.
Anne A. Taylor, Lucie M. Byrne-Davis
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Effects of Quantitative Literacy on Healthcare Decision-Making: An Aural Context
Numeracy, 2020 We propose a relationship between sensory modality, numerical formatting, and performance on a survey simulating healthcare decision-making. We examine the current literature on aural health literacy, and specifically aural literacy coupled with health ...
Robert Root, Sonia Bhala
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Rethinking Health Numeracy: A Multidisciplinary Literature Review [PDF]
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2007 The purpose of this review is to organize various published conceptions of health numeracy and to discuss how health numeracy contributes to the productive use of quantitative information for health. We define health numeracy as the individual-level skills needed to understand and use quantitative health information, including basic computation skills,
Jessica S, Ancker, David, Kaufman
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Health Literacy Research and Practice, 2018 Many people with type 2 diabetes (T2D) do not take medications as prescribed, resulting in suboptimal glycemic control and a greater risk of diabetes complications.
Arathi S. Nandyala +3 more
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