BACKGROUND People with limited health literacy are more likely to be socioeconomically disadvantaged and have risk factors for preventable chronic diseases. General practice is the ideal setting to address these inequalities however these patients engage less in preventive activities and experience difficulties navigating health services. This study aimed to compare primary care patients with a...

libraries as activators of life long learning Neena Singh1 (in collaboration with Andreas Klingenberg2) The paper highlights the role of academic libraries in promoting and developing information skills of students in modern automated and hybrid libraries and their role in developing a knowledge society. It defines information literacy and major information literacy skills required by students...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 background: accessing to health information, getting informed about the health and illness issues is an important factor for health status. it is expected that having a good health requires using this type of information. having such active role in patient and healthy population needs higher level of health literacy. this ...

Research questions: What are the current conceptualizations of health literacy, and what strategies are Canadian health librarians in public, academic, and hospital libraries enacting to put health literacy promotion into practice? Data sources: Serving as the basis of this scoping review, library and information science, health sciences, and interdisciplinary databases were searched using key ...

this paper explores the effectiveness of financial literacy programs. it further seeks to establish the relationship between financial literacy and certain demographic characteristics. this study adopted a correlational research design as the framework to examine the relationship between variables without determining cause and effect. data were randomly collected from 235 petty traders in kumas...

Patient empowerment through self-management education is central to improving the quality of diabetes care and preventing Type 2 Diabetes. Although national programs exist, there is no EU-wide strategy for diabetes self-management education, and patients with limited literacy face barriers to effective self-management. The Diabetes Literacy project, initiated with the support of the European Co...

teaching information literacy needs to become a core activity at academic libraries in distance education universities. innovative programs have been developed to promote information literacy to ensure students success as lifelong learners. this study has been done to evaluate information literacy of students of humanities in payame noor university of mashhad. the research population subjects a...

Background: This study aimed to assess and compare health literacy levels in a range of university-based health students. Methods: A survey containing the Health Literacy Questionnaire (HLQ) was administered to students enrolled in university-based medical, allied health or nursing degree programs. The HLQ scores and scale scores were compared across student groups. Results: In total, 374 stude...