BACKGROUND While the association between inadequate health literacy and adverse health outcomes has been well documented, less is known about the impact of health literacy on health perceptions, such as perceptions of control over health, and preventive health behaviors. METHODS We identified a subsample of participants (N = 707) from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), a nationally repres...

Functional illiteracy rates amongst 16 to 65 year-olds in the world’s richest countries are alarmingly high. This research looks at the use of mobile technology to support experiential adult literacy education whereby adult literacy students are able to construct knowledge throughout their daily activities whilst being supported in their daily literacy challenges. This research has two primary ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the relationship between literacy and numeracy and their association with health task performance. METHODS Older adults (n=304) completed commonly used measures of literacy and numeracy. Single factor literacy and numeracy scores were calculated and used to predict performance on an established set of health self-management tasks, including: (i) responding to spoken i...

BACKGROUND Individuals with low levels of health literacy have less health knowledge, worse self-management of chronic disease, lower use of preventive services, and worse health in cross-sectional studies. We sought to determine whether low health literacy levels independently predict overall and cause-specific mortality. METHODS We designed a prospective cohort study of 3260 Medicare manage...

This article provides an overview of three important considerations when delivering evidence-based emergent literacy interventions: (1) treatment targets, (2) treatment techniques, and (3) treatment contexts. Treatment targets refer to the specific aspects of emergent literacy that clinicians address within their interventions and are organized into two broad areas: code-related skills and mean...

INTRODUCTION In policy and practice, early literacy provision has long been supported by charities and other agencies working in homes, communities, libraries and other settings, as well as schools. In promoting innovation or intervention, these diverse groups, building on different assumptions about literacy and literacy learning, have designed programmes, provided guidelines and/or refined mo...

This article presents a scan of the concept of “digital literacy” and discusses issues encountered in the literature, including: a) challenges in the research base for conceptualizing digital literacy, b) the multiplicity of frameworks which attempt to situate digital literacy but lack sound theoretical origins, and c) wide disagreement among stakeholder disciplines, including education, media ...

There have been made efforts to develop technologies for low health literate users and evaluate them for effectiveness. We address how technology improves health literacy by identifying salient technical features to support health literacy processes and the specific needs of user populations. A systematic review of 45 published studies on technology to improve health literacy in PubMed, Direct ...

The present longitudinal study investigated the predictive power of preschool linguistic skills and early family factors on children's comprehensive literacy skills at the end of primary school in 262 Chinese children. The results indicated that a substantial (20e34%) share of variance of 5th grade (age 11) literacy skills in Chinese could be explained by early family factors (age 3) and lingui...

Although information literacy is not specifically mentioned in the ABET outcomes, the development of these skills is essential to the achievement of several outcomes. Civil Engineering faculty at the United States Coast Guard Academy (USCGA) have developed performance indicators and assessment tools under existing ABET outcomes designed to develop and improve student information literacy skills...