Patients' Literacy Skills: More Than Just Reading Ability

More than just vanilla.

[Health literacy, more than information].

La alfabetización para la salud se ha tratado de forma extensa y con diversas perspectivas desde 1974, cuando en el marco de una conferencia sobre educación y salud el profesor Scott K. Simonds1 utilizó por primera vez el binomio. Desde entonces, no solo se ha puesto de relieve su importancia, sino que se considera una estrategia global2. Son muchas las definiciones que se han formulado y tambi...

More than just big ears

To the non-specialist, large ears in elephants used to mean African, small ears, Indian. But to taxonomists African elephants have long posed a more complex puzzle. During the nineteenth century, it was fashionable for wealthy trophy hunters to assign their own names to species they had shot destined for the museums of Europe. At least 18 elephant subspecies were claimed following this fashion....

EHPnet: More Than Just Unleaded

It takes more than breadcrumbs to learn generic skills: Collaborating to improve information literacy

The effective teaching and learning of generic skills is becoming an important component of undergraduate education with the introduction of graduate attribute programmes in some Australian universities. Research shows that contextualised learning of these skills is important, but is a discipline-specific context sufficient to ensure student success in acquiring these skills? This paper studies...