Thus far there have been no studies or surveys investigating the rates of health literacy in this population or tracheostomy patients in general. Caregivers' literacy rates were measured by administering a Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults (TOFHLA). This test uses actual materials that ...
Objective To understand the rates and scores of six health literacy issues among urban and rural residents in Guangxi,and provide basis for decision-making for health care,health education and health promotion. Methods Stratified multi-staged cluster and PPS sampling methods were adopted in the surve...
The results reported in this article are from a larger descriptive study examining the health literacy rates in active duty military personnel receiving health care within a culture of universal access. The purpose of this article is to describe the health literacy skills among a sample of active ...
aLife expectancy at birth is used as an index of health. Educational attainments are measured by a weighted sum of literacy and gross enrollment rates at the primary, secondary and tertiary level, assigning two-thirds weight to the literacy sub-component. 估计寿命出生时使用作为健康索引。 教育达到...
The relationship between literacy on maternal morality is both direct and indirect through availability of reproductive health care facilities. Literate women are less likely to experience poverty [26,27], more likely to maintain adequate nutritional status [28,29] and make decisions with respect to ...
"There was a real push to get away from that because that was seen as not a sexy, sort of very rote learning, memorization." Experts now fear post-COVID literacy numbers will be even worse. Fox News Digital reported in March that theCOVID pandemiccontributed to a third of yo...
However, from 2017 to 2018, increase seen in percentage of births delivered preterm and early term fertility rate continued to fall last year and reached an all-time low, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says. Health Highlights: July 25, 2019; First U.S. Trial Using CRISPR ...
the number of people born into aPOPULATIONper thousand per year. In 2004, for example, the UK birth rate was 11 people per 1,000 of the population. The difference between this rate and theDEATH RATEis used to calculate the rate of growth of the population of a country over time. The ...
Low literacy presents a wide-reaching barrier to disease prevention that, unlike race/ethnicity, is potentially modifiable. Here, we explore the relationship between health literacy and health behaviors related to cervical cancer prevention in an effort to address concerns about low rates of screening ...
"Literacy is absolutely a health care issue," said Dr. Gigi Chawla, Chief of Pediatrics at Children's Minnesota. She believes so much in the program she also serves as its state medical director. Chawla says she and other doctors use the books to gauge a child's development. ...