Return-Path: <nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id g21HBuu19176; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 12:11:56 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 12:11:56 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <20020301170923.93463.qmail@web20203.mail.yahoo.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Mary Vriniotis < > To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-HEALTH:3596] Re: Health and Numeracy skills X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Status: O Content-Length: 2333 Lines: 72 Here is a recent article discussing numeracy and health. I hope it helps. Woloshin S, Schwartz LM, Moncur M, Gabriel S, Tosteson AN (2001). Assessing values for health: numeracy matters. Medical Decision Making, 21(5): 382-90. Assessed how subjects valued their current state of health using 3 standard assessment techniques: standard gamble, time trade-off, and visual analog scale. Subjects were then asked to answer a series of questions assessing their level of numeracy and to rate their current global health status. Researchers found that low numeracy interferes with the completion of quantitative tasks such as standard gamble and time trade-off. Low numeracy also interferes with the patient's ability to perform other quantitative tasks such as making sense of quantitative information about the risk-reducing benefit of screening mammography. The authors conclude that people with low numeracy may value their health differently than people with higher levels of numeracy which have important implications for researchers seeking to incorporate patient values into medical decisions for health policy. -Emily Zobel Health Literacy Coordinator Harvard School of Public Health --- Nancy Gonzalez-Caro <GONN@etr.org> wrote: > I'd like pose a question to the list related to > numeracy and health issues. > > What are the implications and possible solutions > when looking at the issues of numeracy. Let me pose > an example. Perhaps you have more. > > For example, > Using a nutrition facts label. The label offers a > lot of information that may be confusing even to > those of us with education and experience. > > It requires skills to be able to compare the food > labels and choose the one lowest in fat, calories, > or sodium. Comparing the serving sizes and all. > > So what are the pitfalls, where would adult learners > have trouble understanding the nutrition facts > label? > > And, what are some possible ways around the issues? > > > > > > > Nancy Gonzalez Caro, MPH > Patient Education Specialist > ETR Associates > P.O. Box 1830 > Santa Cruz, CA 95061 > Phone (831) 438-4060 ex. 237 > Fax (831) 438-4284 > Email gonn@etr.org > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Greetings - Send FREE e-cards for every occasion! http://greetings.yahoo.com
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