This paper examines the need for health literacy in India. Health literacy is a catalyst that strengthens the individuals' ability to select the right information and take proper decision over their health. For effective health literacy, the capacity to comprehend the given information and to ...
Objectives: To estimate Caregiver's Oral Health Literacy in India and to examine its relationship with Children's Oral Health outcome. Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted in 240 Caregiver – Children dyad who visited Private Pediatric Dental Office in Chennai (India) where the child's...
Research on mental health literacy in India is limited despite increasing growing evidence of mental illness among general population. Therefore, this stud... P Vijayalakshmi,SB Math - 《International Journal of Mental Health Promotion》 被引量: 13发表: 2013年 Eating disorders mental health literac...
Using data on income, education, and under-five and infant mortality, the researchers suggest that policymakers concerned with public health should focus onliteracy levelsrather than average income.* Models estimate that for the 'typical' Indian district in the early 2000s, the poverty gap would h...
Through this correspondence, we discuss the poor cancer screening coverage in India and the research gap in health literacy in Indian context. Without an understanding of the distribution of the components of health literacy and the development of context-specific interventions for improvement, it will...
BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES: Health literacy on tuberculosis (TB) is an understanding about TB to perform activities with regard to prevention, diagnosis and treatment. We undertook a study to assess the health literacy on TB among one of the vulnerable tribal groups (Saharia) in central India. METH...
The use of qualitative method provided in-depth and rich information that helped to understand the oral health knowledge, literacy and behavior of women during pregnancy [24]. The study was carried out in Bueng Kan, one of the upper northeastern provinces of Thailand. This province has a ...
Teachers are in the front lines of providing care, as students spend the majority of their early adolescence in school, where they endure social challenges.#The study investigated teachers' mental health literacy and their capacity in assisting their students, in addition to current levels of ...
healthcare services. In contrast, SATCOM-based telemedicine nodes, in association with the Department of Space, expand the reach of telemedicine. Public-private partnerships can also significantly ensure affordable digital devices, increase telemedicine facilities and increase digital literacy in rural areas...
However, they cannot substitute for other kinds of investment in the physical infrastructure of a community. Copyright (c) 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 展开 关键词: mental health mental health promotion lay beliefs lay meanings mental health literacy India well-being ...