NeuronFarm announces literacy training website
MADISON The The website ( ) provides info...Health Literacy Rate Associated With Physical And Mental Health
According to a study in the September issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, poor health literacy in people is responsible for poor health and mental conditions//. Besides basic reading skills, individuals need to be able to read and understand numerical information such as that on prescription bottles and be able to read and interpret document information such as appointment slips, t...Tool To Detect Health Literacy among Patients
Dr. Barry D. Weiss, professor of family and community medicine and colleagues developed the latest tool for identifying the health literacy among patients. // They developed a tool which is called the Newest vital sign. It is an easy three minute questionnaire with six questions based on an ice cream nutrition label. Based on the number of correct answers provided by the patient their he...Google Supports Indian's Novel Literacy Drive
An Indian project meant to strengthen reading skills among neo-literates in a cost-effective manner has found favour with the Google Foundation. // "This is not just any corporation supporting the Same Language Subtitling (SLS) project. It's Google!" exclaimed Ahmedabad-based academic Brij Kothari. The US-educated Kothari, who teaches at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahm...Pakistan’s Literacy On The Downward Tren
A recent survey has found that among the developing countries of the Asia Pacific region, Pakistan is at the rock bottom of the literacy rate as two out of three Pakistanis are illiterate. // The Asian South Pacific Bureau of Adult Education's findings contradicts claims that the Education Sector Reforms Programme (ESRP) has improved the literacy situation in the country. C...Lower Literacy Puts Poor Health In Aging
According to a study, by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco, poor literacy skills in people// aged 70 years and older will suffer one and one half to two times as likely to have poor health and poor health care access in people having adequate or high reading skills. Elders with li...