Multidimensional Human Capital, Wages and Endogenous Employment Status in Ghana Previous studies of labor market outcomes such as employment and wages have mostly been limited to investigating the impact of formal schooling only and, as a consequence, have seldom considered skills or alternative routes to acquiring skills, such as adult literacy programs, or other types of education. This paper...

This paper examines the effect of adult literacy program participation on household consumption in Ghana. The adult literacy programs in Ghana are of special interest since they are more comprehensive than standard literacy programs and incorporate many additional topics. We use community fixed effects combined with instrumental variables to account for possible endogenous program placement and...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to evaluate health literacy levels of patients in Almaty City, Kazakhstan and to identify socio-demographics and socio-economic factors related to their health literacy. METHODS An international survey instrument HLS-EU-Q developed by the European Health Literacy Consortium was used in a cross-sectional study with 1000 citizens in the Almaty City at the age of 18 a...

As children may still be exposed to brand placement (despite the EU ban concerning children’s programs), it is examined how different types of disclosures may enable them to cope with this advertising format. The first study showed that a visual cue was more effective than an auditory cue in triggering cognitive advertising literacy. However, this cue-activated literacy did not influence brand ...

This article identifies two factors that contribute to the recycling of deficit pedagogy in programs designed for what Rose calls "students on the bounda1y." The first factor is traditional, technocratic definitions of literacy, viewed here as a mechanism for importing deficit theories into the content of instructional programs and accounting partially for the "missed" education of marginalized...

OBJECTIVE To conduct a systematic review to assess the effectiveness of patient education interventions delivered or directed by health professionals for people with musculoskeletal conditions who also have lower levels of literacy. METHODS Electronic databases were searched from 1946 to May 2012. Randomized controlled trials with primary interventions designed specifically for individuals wi...