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Sex Workers To Have Smart Health Card

... sex workers and their dependents, imparting legal literacy and providing legal support to members, undertaking specific activities for old sex workers and addressing other needs of sex workers and their children. Malini, a sex worker from Kerala, who had written her autobiography, was honoured during the occ...

Lower Literacy Puts Poor Health In Aging

... the University of California, San Francisco, poor literacy skills in people// aged 70 years and older will su...hest medication and disease burden. Adding limited literacy to the list of problems makes these elders particularly vulnerable to poor outcomes, as we found in ...

Pakistan’s Literacy On The Downward Tren

...ific region, Pakistan is at the rock bottom of the literacy rate as two out of three Pakistanis are illiterate...n Sector Reforms Programme (ESRP) has improved the literacy situation in the country. Confirming the report's findings, an education ministry official told Da...

Pakistan experiences an increase in Aids cases : WHO

.... AIDS is also spreading because of poverty, low literacy level especially among women, huge refugee population, big high risk population such as long distance truck drivers, commercial sex workers, limited safety of blood transfusion. According to WHO/UNAids definition, Pakistan was classified as a low p...

Google Supports Indian's Novel Literacy Drive

... hum - and without realising it themselves - their literacy skills are growing. Kothari said the support fro...elieve it is important to examine the link between literacy and poverty," the Google.org team announced. The PlanetRead project, operating in Mumbai and Pondi...

Healthy People 2010 Objectives Aims To Reduce Oral Health Disparities In Society

... in oral health and the role played by oral health literacy towards the same* Discuss the role to be played by the academia to increase awareness of oral health disparities* Analyze what objectives of HP2010 have been fulfilled so far* Discuss future measures for increasing health literacyThis symposium holds...

Tool To Detect Health Literacy among Patients

...veloped the latest tool for identifying the health literacy among patients. // They developed a tool which is...rrect answers provided by the patient their health literacy can be calculated. Then it is for the doctors, nurses and other health care officials to interact...

Three meals daily Keeps 'Kerala's elderly Healthy

...the ageing population in Kerala which has the best literacy rate in country eats// three meals a day and most are non-vegetarians. Almost 90 percent of both men and women over 60 years in Kerala eat three meals a day, according to ‘Kerala Ageing Survey’, funded by the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute. It in...

Health Literacy Rate Associated With Physical And Mental Health

...ssue of Archives of Internal Medicine, poor health literacy in people is responsible for poor health and menta...nt) health literacy. Individuals with lower health literacy were more likely to have never smoked and to abstain from alcohol than individuals with adequate hea...

Language Delays May Not Be Normal In Children

...kly to monthly. Parents can encourage language and literacy in children from birth. Reading stories is also a good way to foster language development. Researchers recommend active books, with things to touch and manipulate. Source: Newswise Medindia on Developmental delays: Further information Developm...

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