...Health is an extremely critical part of your everyday life. Your health impacts everything you do. Therefore learning how to become and stay healthy through good health education is important. This health education begins with being health literate. To have health literacy an individual must be able to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and use such information in ways that promote his or her health and wellness. It is very important to be health literate and understand what it means to be health literate because at some point in your life you will need to be able to find and use health information and services for many different reasons or situations. To be a health literate person, he or she must be a critical thinker and problem solver, a responsible, productive citizen, a self directed learner, and an effective communicator. Being a critical thinker or problem solver is one trait of being health literate. A person must be able to judge information, making sure that it is reliable, before making a decision. They are also very responsible when it comes to making critical decisions. This is a valuable characteristic as it relates to our...
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...In today’s society literacy has become a major part of a person’s daily life to get through our constant ups and downs. The word literacy has many different meanings to many different people which continues to develop throughout society as a whole. It may be defined as ‘skills and knowledge to create, develop, analyze and comprehend as well as use a wide range of written and visual texts’. An individual who the capability of getting many tasks then creates open doors for others which then creates a stronger world. The ability to read and write makes an individual share their ideas to expand research and findings. There is a set of different criteria in which each adult falls into within programs. Health literacy is a concept which then depends...
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...1. There are many reasons why it is important to be research literate. Can you identify one aspect that you consider most important? (183/150) As professionals in the healthcare field, we are required to scrutinize the literature constantly. We do this sometimes for personal growth, but many times, reading scientific documents is necessary to advance specific career goals. For instance, in EMS, the medical literature is continuously changing as new protocols are developed, and the scope of EMS providers expands. Therefore, research literacy becomes a critical component of the process. According to Senders, Erlandsen and Zwickey (2014), “research literacy is the ability to access, interpret, and critically evaluate primary medical literature.”...
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...An individual that is computer literate has many advantages in life. All high-paying jobs require its employee to be computer literate. This skill is a must in order to be successful in the workforce. Computers have become a part of our everyday lives. Life would be very difficult without them. I am very computer literate. Working on computers became a hobby of mines back in high school. Operating on one is not an easy task if one has no idea of what he or she is doing. I started out make many mistakes on computers before I became an expert at them. For example, my grandmother bought me a computer for Christmas and I was the happiest kid in the candy store. I immediately went to the games section and enjoyed them to the fullest. One day, I began to run low on disk space and decided to go into my system files and delete random files and folders that I thought were useless to the computer. Sure enough they were useless until my computer displayed symbols and signs where text should have been. It was as if my computer exhibited a different language but only through different shapes and signs. I was terrified that I had done this to my computer! My mom later called customer service to resolve the problem, but never again did I go into my system and delete random files unless I knew exactly what I was deleting! I’ve learned a lot from my mistakes on working with computers. I am now a pro in the field of computers. I’ve had clients in the past that I have worked...
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...Jack Andrews Introduction In this chapter, we learn how to keep ourselves healthy in our physical activity, social life, and mental and emotional state in the health triangle. Spiritual health is very important to our well being and we also want to have a wellness or an overall state of well being or total health. many americans suffer from chronic diseases such as heart disease, obesity, and cancer. Hereditary, the environment, peers and culture all affect your health. The most powerful influences are media and technology because many people see celebrities as role models when they are actually saying to do bad things.Risk behaviors are actions...
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...however, one must always question what the media says, and become educated on the facts the media presents in order to become media literate and find the truth. The news is important to Americans. According to a Gallup News poll, 55% of Americans turn to just television alone for their news. But sometimes, not even the media knows the real truth. The media does not always have time to fact check and dig deeper into their news stories. News reporting is a fast-paced and hectic industry. If a reporter takes 30 seconds longer than their competition to report on a story, then the competition will get more attention. In the early 2000’s, many news outlets started reporting on a study conducted by the World Health Organization. The study suggested that blond hair wasn't going to exist in the human population after 200 years. Their reasoning was blond hair, being a recessive gene, will slowly be taken over by the other hair colors. They also stated that the last natural blond would be born in Finland. Anyone wanting to find more information about this scientific study would have a difficult time of it, because none of the articles that reported on it ever linked to the study or even named any of the "German scientists" who conducted it. On top of this, there are no scientific details such as numbers, percentages, or statistics. Also, the World Health Organization, which supposedly conducted the study, had never heard of it. In fact, nobody knows where this story came from. It can...
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...information” but just because information was sent and received does not mean there is an understanding. This same ((cheesebro, o'connor, & rios, 2010,) states “effective communication is shared understanding between the sender and the receiver of the message sent” There are basic elements of communicating; Sending, receiving, encoding, decoding, message, channel and feedback. When communicating the sender and receiver are all the parties involved, you send and receive information simultaneously. The original sender originates an idea or thought and to communicate it they encode their thoughts into words. The receiver then decodes in a process to understand what the sender was trying to say. “The message is a thought, feeling or opinion being communicated.” ((cheesebro, o'connor, & rios, 2010,) When sending and receiving a message you will send and receive verbal content but you will communicate nonverbally as well. Channeling is the way the message travels examples is face to face communication, email, telephone calls, and test messages, shaking hands and patting someone on the back is also a form of communication. And finally, the feedback is the receiver’s response to the information that was received. During the feedback process the receiver indicates hoe they understand the message and how they feel about it. To have effective communication all of the concepts need to be used properly. When sending information, communicate clearly what you want, need, think or feel...
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...Nordic Journal of African Studies 11(3): 403-410 (2002) NEWSPAPERS AS INSTRUMENTS FOR BUILDING LITERATE COMMUNITIES: THE NIGERIAN EXPERIENCE EMMANUEL TAIWO BABALOLA Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria ABSTRACT This paper recognizes newspapers, the world over, as useful tools for promoting literate communities. Because of their invaluable functions of informing, educating, entertaining and constructively bringing the activities of the government nearer to the people, newspapers are now very popular and common with adults and young alike. Newspapers are veritable tools for promoting literacy through reading, writing and dialogues (among readers and critics), which are the hallmarks of effective and efficient use of language. Newspapers have a built-in capacity to motivate readers. As a result, it is the common practice in most parts of the country to have people congregate around newspapers stands and vendors every morning reading and discussing the contents of the newspapers. Newspapers can thus promote critical thinking, retention of information, problem solving and questioning of information source. This paper is an account of an on-going study regarding the effectiveness and noneffectiveness of English medium newspapers for facilitating literacy empowerment. Given the need to exploit the enormous resources of newspapers, as vehicles for facilitating literacy empowerment among literate communities, this paper suggests steps that can be taken by newspaper publishers, members of...
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...The Digital Divide INF 103 Computer Literacy Sean O’Leary, DM, MBA 4/21/14 The digital divide is a phrase used to address the gap between those who have ready access to the information and communication technologies, the knowledge that they provide access to, and those who do not. In the global digital information age those who are either unable to access the internet are increased disadvantage in their access to information. In most western nations government policies are being established which attempt to ensure that all citizens have the opportunity to access and effectively use the internet, in order to enable them to participate fully in the educational, social and economic activities. While it can be argued that several factors contribute to the digital divide, economics appears to be the biggest contributing factors for access to the Digital Opportunity Index. The Introduction to Digital Literacy, explains the digital divide as related to threat that results from groups of underprivileged people not having access to computers and the internet. According to Bowles, 2013, the fact that some people have easy access to the benefits computers provide; while many others are cut off from them, is considered an ethical issue. The information rich are on one side, and those who are poor, living in underdeveloped countries, or who live in a rural area with no internet access on the other side. The number of homes in the United States with personal...
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...care to patient and the community. A professional nurse is require to provide care and information for patient and their families. Patient and families have the right to able to understand healthcare information which would empower them to make informed decisions about their care. Improving Health literacy in healthcare settings allow greater understanding of information and knowledge which would improve patient care. Being health literate is not only about reading and learning but is about understanding health information and using it to better one’s health. Health literacy is the ability for an individual to understand health information and services in order to make appropriate decisions regarding their health. (Sewell, 2015, p. 140). For example, retrieving medication and referrals, knowing when is time to take medication, interpreting medical terminology and comparing different insurance. Individuals who are health literate would know about their insurance coverage and can use the information to understand what services are available under that policy which would empower them to make informed decisions regarding health services, which can contribute to their overall health. Health literacy is not all about the ability of the patient to read, but...
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...THE SOCIAL ENTREPRENEUR I LIKE -Sanjit ‘Bunker’ Roy. Social Entrepreneurship in India – Changing the Life of the Poor India has the world's second largest labour force of 516.3 million people and although hourly wage rates in India have more than doubled over the past decade, the latest World Bank report states that approximately 350 million people in India currently live below the poverty line. With an estimated population of 1.2 billion people, this means that every third Indian is bereft of even basic necessities like nutrition, education and health care and many are still blighted by unemployment and illiteracy. Social entrepreneurs can help alleviate these issues by putting those less fortunate on a path towards a worthwhile life. Rather than leaving societal needs to the government or business sectors, they can solve the problem by changing the system. What is a Social Entrepreneur?: Over the past two decades, the citizen sector has discovered what the business sector learned long ago: There is nothing as powerful as a new idea in the hands of a first-class entrepreneur. Social entrepreneurs are individuals with innovative solutions to society’s most pressing social problems. They are ambitious and persistent, tackling major social issues and offering new ideas for wide-scale change. Rather than leaving societal needs to the government or business sectors, social entrepreneurs find what is not working and solve the problem by changing the system, spreading...
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...live in. A report by the Free Expression Policy Project has shown that media glamorize violence, sex, drugs, and alcohol; reinforce stereotypes about race, gender, and class; and prescribe the lifestyle to which one should aspire, and the products one must buy to attain it (Hines and Cho 2). If society wants to correct these negative influences of media, Walter Cronkite’s message on the need for media literacy is therefore imperative. Media literacy, defined by AMLA as the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and communicate information in a variety of forms, will empower us to be both critical thinkers and creative producers of a wide range of messages using image, language, and sound (Center for Media Literacy). By becoming media literate, it is hope that we will have a better understanding of ourselves, our communities, and our diverse culture. To showcase the importance of media literacy, analyses of news and commercial media are presented and discussed. News media are responsible for presenting current news and events to the public. An essential component of this category of media is photojournalism. However, questions are raised whether photojournalism is still essential to news media. One photograph that will reinforce the ever critical role of photography in news media is “China. Beijing, Tiananmen Square...
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...female to assert their identity. According to the census of 2011, 75.1% male are literate whereas only 57.4% female are literate. Female are marginalized from economic and social opportunities due to illiteracy, poverty and conservative social taboos. The present status of women is said to be strong than the past but it is only limited to raise voice about female’s issue and problem of practical life. The status of women is the same as it used to be in the past. Government of Nepal has provided 33% reservation facility and other many opportunities for the women development, but real backward women are not able to utilize that facilities. Traditional ethical code of the society expects women to remain restricted within four walls of home, which is still a common occurrence. In some of the countries of South Asia women are outlawed even to cast votes. In South Asian region, women are discriminated, because of son preference traditions of the society dominated by religious beliefs. Daughters are discriminated from birth to funeral ceremony. Women are also suffering from domestic violence, wrong tradition and cultural malpractices. Some awful examples of violence are: sex selective abortion, wife battering, child marriage, polygamy, rape, sexual violence, trafficking of women and forced prostitution, sexual harassment, dowry, Tilak system, suicide, killings and domestic violence still prevailed. Nepal being the country very poor are due to lack of awareness and access to quality education...
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...through mosquito bites, the symptoms don’t appear until the last stages which is when the victims of the virus start showing signs of extreme fever & by that time it’s down to the hour. In Erika Reinhardt’s journal she states that while Malaria once killed a child every 30 second, thanks to modern medicine it has given Africa’s children a chance to survive although 20% of all kids who contract the disease still end up dying due to circumstances. In Greenways’s entry he says women with as little as 6 years of primary school education are more likely to keep their child alive past the 5 year expectancy but like every experiment done there are always negative responses & that is any women weather literate or not can be a good mother. But he believes that a cognitive understanding of health & life skills is what the women of the nation need to...
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...Running head: RESEARCH CRITIQUE Research Critique of “Physical Education Teaching Methods” Jerome T. Gardner Columbia Southern University March 2011 Research Critique of “Physical Education Teaching Methods” Introduction The introduction of this article does give you a sense of importance of the problem in physical education. The area being talked about in this article is An instructional model is a "plan or pattern that can be used to shape curriculums (long-term courses of studies), to design instructional materials, and to guide instruction in the classroom or other settings" (Joyce & Weil, 1980, p. 1). The authors then go on about to say improvement in physical education to be an educational outcome and do not see the need to include additional outcomes. The absolute priority clearly requires applicants to propose projects that address physical education. More specifically, the absolute priority requires every applicant to develop, expand, or improve its physical education program and address its State's physical education standards. Statement of the problem The purpose of this study “is to analyze and evaluate and give insightful, critical, and logical to the points the authors made”. While the authors do list a purpose for the study they do not have a well-defined problem statement. They do say that a message from the school district, but they do not say how it would be beneficial. Review of Literature The literature review that was done by the authors...
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