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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Healthcare Literacy"”.
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Stroke Outreach in the Lao Community
… prompted concern regarding access to quality healthcare for non-English speaking Southeast Asians (SEA) in the area. Goals of an initial investigation and subsequent implementation of sustainable stroke health fairs for non-English speaking communities were evaluated to assess primary …
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The Geography of Farmworker Health: A Mixed-Method Exploratory Analysis of Chronic Disease
… the second technique featured the delineation of healthcare service areas. Qualitative techniques featured interviews with key informants and farmworkers based on the theoretical foundation of social epidemiology. In the study areas, this dissertation found 209 total disease clusters (< 0.02) …
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A Lexi-ontological Resource for Consumer Healthcare: The Italian Consumer Medical Vocabulary
In the era of Consumer Health Informatics, healthcare consumers and patients play an active role because they increasingly explore health related information sources on their own, and they become more responsible for their personal healthcare, trying to find information on the web, consulting …
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The Low Literate Consumer in the Pharmacy
… This paper suggests that consumers with limited literacy skills are routinely overlooked within the healthcare arena and may be in need of consumer protection policies. Low literacy is generally perceived to be a stigma, and consumers may actively work to hide this fact. Moreover, given they lack …