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Health literacy and public health: A systematic review and integration of definitions and models
BMC Public Health, 2012 BackgroundHealth literacy concerns the knowledge and competences of persons to meet the complex demands of health in modern society. Although its importance is increasingly recognised, there is no consensus about the definition of health literacy or ...
K. Sørensen +6 more
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Nutrition and Food Literacy: Framing the Challenges to Health Communication
Nutrients, 2023 Nutrition and food literacy are two important concepts that are often used interchangeably, but they are not synonymous. Nutrition refers to the study of how food affects the body, while food literacy refers to the knowledge, skills, and attitudes ...
Paula Silva +3 more
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Critical Literacy and Literacies
Journal of Education, Teaching and Social Studies, 2020 Literacy emerged as a concept that meant the application of reading, writing and numeracy skills in the individual’s everyday context. Nowadays, the concept of literacy takes on a central and multivariate dimension and is mobilized in several contexts, such as digital literacy, sustainability literacy and ocean literacy, just to name a few.
Sandro Serpa, Ana Isabel Santos
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A Review of the "Digital Turn" in the New Literacy Studies [PDF]
, 2010 Digital communication has transformed literacy practices and assumed great importance in the functioning of workplace, recreational, and community contexts.
Alexiadis, D.S. +11 more
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Impact of low health literacy on patients’ health outcomes: a multicenter cohort study
BMC Health Services Research, 2022 This study aims to assess the health literacy of medical patients admitted to hospitals and examine its correlation with patients’ emergency department visits, hospital readmissions, and durations of hospital stay. This prospective cohort study recruited
Rabia Shahid +5 more
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A systematic review on digital literacy
Smart Learning Environments, 2022 The purpose of this study is to discover the main themes and categories of the research studies regarding digital literacy. To serve this purpose, the databases of WoS/Clarivate Analytics, Proquest Central, Emerald Management Journals, Jstor Business ...
H. Tınmaz +3 more
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A theory-based self-report measure of health literacy: The Calgary Charter on Health Literacy scale
Methodological Innovations, 2018 We set out to test a theory-based measure of health literacy. To do so, we included the newly developed Calgary Charter on Health Literacy scale in Pre- and Post-evaluation of the Life Enhancement Program at multiple sites. The program focusing on health
Andrew Pleasant +3 more
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Extended strategy-use instruction to improve students’ reading proficiency in a content subject
Reading & Writing, 2018 Background: Student reading challenges have been reported worldwide. In many classrooms around the world, teaching students appropriate strategy-use has been a technique used to improve comprehension and improve reading proficiency. However, strategy-use
Naomi A.Y. Boakye, Michal-Mare Linden
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Current Oncology, 2023 Introduction: The increasing demand for cancer services is projected to overwhelm the cancer care system, leading to a potential shortfall in human resource capacity.
Janet Papadakos +4 more
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Digital literacy in Ugandan teacher education: Insights from a case study
Reading & Writing, 2013 This case study investigated the relationship between policy and practice with regard to advances in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Ugandan teacher education.
Samuel Andema +2 more
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