Health Education Flashcards

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Described as someone who possessed socially required and expected reading and writing abilities, such as being able to sign his or her name and read and write a simple sentence.

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Literate Person

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Generally defined as the ability to read and speak English.

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Literacy

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They defined literacy as the ability to use printed and written information to function in society, to achieve one’s goals, to develop one’s knowledge and potential.

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U.S Department of Education

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NALS categorized literacy into three types of tasks:

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Prose, Document, and Quantitative

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The commonly accepted working definition of it is the ability to write and read, understand and interpret information written at eighth-grade level or above.

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Literate

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Being unable to read or write at all or having reading and writing skills at the fourth-grade level or below.

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Illiterate

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It is also termed marginally literate or marginally illiterate, refers to the ability of adults to read, write, and comprehend information between fifth- and eighth-grade levels of difficulty.

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Low literacy

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Adults lack the fundamental reading, writing and comprehension skills that are needed to perform the tasks of everyday life. They do not read well enough to understand and interpret what they have read or use the information as it was intended.

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Adults lack the fundamental reading, writing and comprehension skills that are needed to perform the tasks of everyday life. They do not read well enough to understand and interpret what they have read or use the information as it was intended.

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It is defined by Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, Title V, as the degree to which an individual has the capacity to obtain, communicate, process and understand basic health information and services to maje appropriate health decisions.

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Health Literacy

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Or word recognition as “the process of transforming letters into words and being
able to pronounce them correctly.

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Reading

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Defined as the ease with which written or printed information can be read.

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Readability

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12
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The degree to which individuals understand what they have read.

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Comprehension

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An invisible handicap that affects all classes, ethnic groups, and ages.

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Illiteracy

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Research shows that the following populations have been identified as having poorer reading and comprehension skills than the average American

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Older Adults, immigrants, those with English as a 2nd language, racial minorities, highschool dropouts, prisoners, unemployed, inner-city and rural residents, those with poor health status resulting from chronic mental and physical problems, those on medicaid

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15
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The two groups of researchers found that among the functionally illiterate the most common deficiencies found were:

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Phonics, Comprehension, and Perception

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Regions of cerebral cortex help to control HEARING, MEMORY, and a person’s SENSE OF SELF AND TIME.

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Temporal Lobe

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A small region of it has approximately 10% fewer neurons.

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Temporal Lobe - Men

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More neurons are located in it where LANGUAGE, MELODIES and SPEECH TONES are understood.

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Temporal Lobe - Women

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The main bridge between the left and right contains a bundle of neurons that carry messages between two brain hemispheres.

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Corpus Callosum

20
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This part of the brain takes up less volumes which suggests less communication between the two bairn hemispheres.

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Corpus Callosum - Men

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The back portion of this is bigger which may explain why they use both sides of their brains for language.

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Corpus Callosum - Women

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This is the part of brain that processes fear, triggers action, and signals danger.

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Amygdala

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To them, his part of the brain is larger and has testosterone receptors that heighten aggressive responses to compete and fight.

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Amygdala - Men

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Their hormone receptors in this part of the brain lead them to seef safety and connections within a group.

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Amygdala - Women

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Along with the subdivision area known as the straight gyrus, this area is involved in social cognition and interpersonal awareness.

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Prefrontal Cortex

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Their straight gyrus is smaller which reduces their social awareness and empathy.

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Prefrontal Cortex - Men

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The straight gyrus is 10% larger and correlates with their increased social perceptions and sensitive nurturing.

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Prefrontal Cortex - Women

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This collection of nerve cells, smaller than the corpus callosum, also connects the brain’s two hemisphere.

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Anterior Commissure

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The commissure is smaller than others and even though their brains are on average, larger in size than women.

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Anterior Commissure - Men

30
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The commissure is larger than men which may be a reason why their cerebral hemispheres seem to work together on tasks from language to emotional responses.

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Anterior Commissure - Women

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