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Increasing Health Literacy of Parents of Children 0 to 5 Regarding Oral Health and Immunizations

open access: yes, 2023
Health literacy is the ability of an individual to find, communicate, process, and understand basic health information and services. Limited health literacy is linked with lower health outcomes, increased hospitalization rates, decreased use of ...
Tiger, Malgorzata   +1 more
core  

Barriers and Facilitators to Promoting Oral Health Literacy and Patient Communication among Dental Providers in California. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Studies demonstrate that dental providers value effective provider-patient communication but use few recommended communication techniques. This study explored perspectives of California dental providers and oral health literacy experts in the United ...
Linda Neuhauser   +21 more
core   +1 more source

Health System Factors in Head and Neck Cancer Diagnosis: A HEADSpAcE Consortium Qualitative Study in Glasgow and Montevideo

open access: yesHead &Neck, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Head and neck cancer (HNC) is a devastating diagnosis, with advanced‐stage disease leading to poorer outcomes. This qualitative study aimed to identify health system factors associated with stage of HNC diagnosis. Methods Qualitative semistructured interviews with HNC patients and clinicians were undertaken in two purposively ...
Grant Creaney   +196 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring the association between oral health literacy and alexithymia

open access: yes, 2015
Low health literacy and alexithymia have separately been emphasized as barriers to patient-practitioner communication, but the association between the two concepts has not been explored. Objective: To test the hypothesis that low oral health literacy and
Bergdahl, Jan,   +3 more
core   +1 more source

“It's the Exact Same Treatment … Except Only 5 Min Away”: A RE‐AIM Evaluation of a Speech‐Language Pathology Shared‐Care Model for Rural Patients With Head and Neck Cancer

open access: yesHead &Neck, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Challenges accessing post‐treatment speech‐language pathology (SLP) services can add to treatment burden for rural patients with head and neck cancer (HNC). Hence, the aim of this study was to evaluate a shared‐care SLP service designed to support local SLP access for patients with HNC, using the RE‐AIM framework.
Corey Patterson   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Linguistic adaptation and psychometric evaluation of original oral health literacy-adult questionnaire (OHL-AQ)

open access: yesJournal of Advances in Medical Education and Professionalism, 2016
Introduction: Linguistically adapted oral health literacy tools are helpful to assess oral health literacy among local population with clarity and understandability.
SHALEEN VYAS   +3 more
doaj  

Influenza and Human Papillomavirus Vaccine Utilisation in Vulnerable Urban Youth in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

open access: yesThe International Journal of Health Planning and Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction This project explores influenza and human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine utilisation among a multi‐ethnic group of youth (aged 11–23 years) in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Method Using a cross‐sectional design and purposive sampling, influenza vaccine utilisation over 3 years was assessed via questionnaire.
Sarah Deck   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Promoting Immunization and Oral Health Literacy Among Parents

open access: yes, 2023
Pediatric periodontal and immunization-preventable disease are leading causes of pediatric morbidity. Evidence-based literature supports that improving parental health literacy can reduce pediatric periodontal and immunization-preventable disease ...
NC DOCKS at East Carolina University   +1 more
core  

The FemTech revolution: Unlocking the potential of new technology for optimizing pregnancy outcomes in low‐ and middle‐income countries and remote areas

open access: yesInternational Journal of Gynecology &Obstetrics, EarlyView.
Abstract Maternal and neonatal mortality and morbidity rates uncover major global health disparities. Despite ongoing efforts, the rates of maternal and neonatal complications remain substantially higher in low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs) compared to high‐income countries (HICs). These high rates are the result of several unmet needs in LMICs,
Nir Melamed   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source

Associations between Indigenous Australian oral health literacy and self-reported oral health outcomes

open access: yesBMC Oral Health, 2010
Objectives To determine oral health literacy (REALD-30) and oral health literacy-related outcome associations, and to calculate if oral health literacy-related outcomes are risk indicators for poor self-reported oral health among rural-dwelling ...
Jamieson Lisa M, Parker Eleanor J
doaj   +1 more source

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