knowledge-based society is already established in some developed countries which are not far away from bangladesh. in the transition to the knowledge/information based society, information literacy is essential for the effective and widespread use of information. it is used today to describe a set of skills and competencies, processes and actions, and attitudes that lead one to be a wise inform...

background: worldwide, about 350 million people are infected with hepatitis b virus (hbv), most of them in asia. up to 1 million of them die due to these sequels annually. few studies concerned about hbv awareness of iranians young people. as health education programs should be based on awareness of target group about the disease, we conducted a national survey to evaluate health literacy and v...

Background and purpose: Media literacy is defined as the ability to access, analyze, and evaluate the messages transferred by the media, which has the various dimensions, including the creativity, critical thinking and problem solving. This study was conducted with the aim of investigating the media literacy in students of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences. Material and Method: In this...

pon successful completion of this article, the pharmacist should be able to: 1. describe the status of literacy in the United States 2. define functional health literacy and its relationship to health outcomes. 3. describe how to assess low health literacy in community pharmacy patients. 4. address low health literacy in the community pharmacy setting through patient counseling. 5. address low ...

Although entertainment-education narratives are increasingly being used to communicate health information to a diversity of populations, there is limited evidence examining the use of narrative health education videos in low compared with adequate health literacy populations. There are also very few studies directly comparing narrative materials to more traditional, non-narrative materials. Bec...