Dr. MICHAEL WOLF (Professor of Medicine, Director of Health Literacy and Learning, Northwestern University): Thank you, Neal.
We must promote greater health literacy and behavioural changes that will reduce non-communicable diseases and tobacco and alcohol abuse.
Also with us, Michael Wolf, assistant professor of medicine and director of Health Literacy and Learning Program at Northwestern University.
Also thanks to Michael Wolf, assistant professor of medicine and director of Health Literacy and Learning Program at the Northwestern University.
And Michael Wolf, I wanted to follow up about how people get their information and who gets the challenge of health literacy campaigns.
Joining us now to talk about this glut of information is Michael Wolf, assistant professor of medicine, director of health literacy and learning at the Northwestern University.
The flip-side to the poverty trap, however, is that the gains of development tend to be sustained, once countries break through to sufficient levels of income, health and literacy.
Nepal ranks low in the league tables on maternal health, female literacy and the role of women in public life.
Free societies also bring about greatly improved outcomes in life expectancy, literacy, health, the environment and other important dimensions.
Beyond television, the Workshop produces content for multiple media platforms on a wide range of issues including literacy, health and military deployment.
Our enterprise support enables agricultural businesses to grow and thrive, provide agronomic training and literacy, health and other social programs, while building infrastructure in the countryside.
When countries were classified in 1990 by their status in the United Nations Human Development Index (an index of income, literacy and health), high-development countries achieved robust and stable economic growth during 1990-98, with average growth rates of around 2.3% a year and with 35 out of 36 countries enjoying rising living standards.
Spruiell White of the MacArthur Foundation, which supports such efforts, describes an array of barriers, from poor literacy to poor health.
Given the extensive public health infrastructure and the high literacy and social status of Vietnamese women, experts say the country should not have such a high abortion rate.
Why not adopt the technique favoured by modern corporate theory and offer Mr Moi (and a few of his nearest and dearest henchmen) an option scheme, based on economic growth rates, literacy levels or health indicators?
The community-owned initiative provides meaningful literacy, livelihood, public health and nutrition education to about 1, 000 Pashai ethnic minority men and women annually.
On behalf of Director UNESCO Beirut, Officer in Charge Bachir Lamine delivered the UNESCO Director General that stressed the importance of Literacy for sustainable development and health.
Last year, we launched the Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools recognition award to encourage more schools to pursue sustainability, foster health and wellness, and integrate environmental literacy into the curriculum.
We have so many other things to be ashamed of first -- like our literacy rate, poverty levels, health conditions, political leaders and parties, corruption, terrorism etc.
Focus areas include agriculture, environment, health, sanitation, family planning, education, literacy and rule of law.
The classes cover basic literacy in Khmer, and numeracy combined with health information specific to mothers and children.
To this end, the PLP emphasise training in, for example, literacy (mathematics, English, Urdu), health, agriculture (crop, fish, poultry and livestock production), life skills (peace-building, conflict management and resolution), food processing and preservation and dressmaking.
Among the speakers and presenters were Dr. Kozue Kay Nagata, Country Director, UNESCO Pakistan, Dr. Suleman Shaikh of SZABIST, Ms. Yasmeen Lari of Heritage Foundation, Dr. Riaz Memon, Special Secretary (Acting Secretary) Education and Literacy Department, GoS. Dr. Nisar Solangi from Health Reform Support Unit, Mr. Kamran Naeem from UNHABITAT, Mr. Kazi Ayaz Mahessar, UNESCO, Mr. Ghulam Nabi from RSU, Dr. Santosh Kamrani from UNESCO and Ms. Sadia Fazli from UNHABITAT.
Jon Entine is director of the Genetic Literacy Project and senior research fellow at STATS and the Center for Health and Risk Communications at George Mason University.
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While the Ministry of Education trains literacy teachers to identify learners in need of referral to the Public Health System network, the Ministry of Health gives learners access to professional eye tests and provides them with glasses.
First of all, literacy was integrated with other issues of concern to the community such as veteran health and livelihood security, thus providing an opportunity for economic and social empowerment.
Since 2006, CARE, International Rescue Committee, Afghan Health and Development Organisation, and other Afghan NGOs have used the LfL materials in their adult literacy courses.
Health lessons are always taught through songs, stories, and skits, due to the high level of non-literacy.
Literacy opens up access to the knowledge and understandings vital to work (employment or self employment), health and family life as well as for active citizenship.
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