As available information proliferates, the necessity of being able to correctly select, interpret, and measure the “goodness” of the information, and therefore how much it should be relied upon, becomes more and more critical to all fields, but especially to the practice of engineering. However, this is a skill which is not taught or stressed in many engineering education programs today. Rangin...

Homeless women with children living in transitional housing programs are at risk for inadequate and inappropriate navigation of the health care system, both medical and mental health services. Effective intervention programs to enhance navigational skills are needed to improve health outcomes and to decrease health care costs. This research study had two objectives: to identify whether the resi...

This second edition of Information Literacy: Essential Skills for the Information Age remains true to the first edition (published in 1998). The main changes involved the updating of educational standards discussed in the text, as well as the updating of the term history. Overall, this book serves as a detailed definition of the concept of information literacy and focuses heavily on presenting ...

Background and Objective Hypertension is considered an important public health problem in developed and developing countries. This disease is closely associated with the quality of life of patients, and it seems that health literacy plays a role in this regard. Due to lack of information on the role of health literacy on the quality of life in patients with hypertension, this study has aimed to...

Health literacy is one of the major determinants of health and is one of the important factors in chronic diseases such as Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory disease in which the myelin sheaths of the neural cells are damaged in the brain and spinal cord. The aim of this study was to evaluate the Health Literacy Association with Health Behaviors and Health Care Utilization. This study w...

s, United Kingdom) for the dates 1990-2000, was undertaken for the latest reports pertaining to literacy including: major surveys, evaluation studies, manuals on libraries and literacy, plus recent major national or regional literacy movements that involved libraries. The search could only be characterized as cursory, mainly English-language based, and selective for materials available from a l...

Objective Health literacy plays a critical role in chronic disease self-management. This study aimed to determine the relation between health literacy levels, hypertension awareness and control among primary-secondary school teachers in Turkey. Materials and Methods This descriptive and cross-sectional research was conducted among school teachers with the participation of 500 volunteer teache...

Adult ESL programs in the Australian context are heavily influenced by neo-liberal notions of functional literacy and numeracy. This paper argues that such notions, designed to enable the learner to function within the workplace or community can fail to acknowledge the complexity of ESL program participation for adult learners. This paper reports on a project which explored such complexity. It ...

Previous studies have examined the relationship between education and teenage pregnancy focusing mainly on how teenage pregnancy affects individual human capital per se rather than skills and have mainly considered developed countries, especially the US. This paper examines teenage pregnancy in Ghana, focusing on the role and interplay of Ghanaian and English reading skills, formal educational ...