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  2. Health literacy - Wikipedia

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    The ability to read and understand medication instructions is a form of health literacy. Health literacy encompasses a wide range of skills, and competencies that people develop over their lifetimes to seek out, comprehend, evaluate, and use health information and concepts to make informed choices, reduce health risks, and increase quality of life.

  3. Special education - Wikipedia

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    Students with special needs are segregated in separate classrooms exclusively for students with special needs for the rest of the school day. [21] [22] Segregation in a separate classroom or special school for students with special needs: In this model, students with special needs do not attend classes with non-disabled students.

  4. Medical calculator - Wikipedia

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    Medical calculators arose because modern medicine makes frequent use of scores and indices that put physicians' memory and calculation skills to the test. [2] The advent of personal computers, the Internet and Web, and more recently personal digital assistants (PDAs) have formed an environment conducive to their development, spread and use.

  5. Educational technology - Wikipedia

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    The benefits of app-assisted learning have been exhibited in all age groups. Kindergarten students that use iPads show much higher rates of literacy than non-users. Medical students at the University of California Irvine that utilized iPad academically have been reported to score 23% higher on national exams than in previous classes that did not.

  6. Physical Quality of Life Index - Wikipedia

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    The value is the average of three statistics: basic literacy rate , infant mortality, and life expectancy at age one, all equally weighted on a 1 to 100 scale. It was developed for the Overseas Development Council in the mid-1970s by M.D Morris, as one of a number of measures created due to dissatisfaction with the use of GNP as an indicator of ...

  7. MDCalc - Wikipedia

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    MDCalc was founded by two emergency physicians, Graham Walker, MD, and Joseph Habboushe, MD, MBA, [5] and provides over 500 medical calculators and other clinical decision-support tools. [6] The MDCalc.com website was launched in 2005. [5] In 2016, MDCalc launched an iOS app, [7] followed by an Android app in 2017. [8]

  8. College health - Wikipedia

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    Post-secondary students experience stress from a variety of sources in their daily life, including academics. [6] [7] In a 2017 American College Health Association report, 47.5% of post-secondary students claimed that they considered their academic stress to be 'traumatic or very difficult to handle.’ [9] Disturbed sleep patterns, social problems, and homesickness are all major factors that ...

  9. Occupational safety and health literacy - Wikipedia

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    Additionally, those who have gained OSH literacy skills can cascade their new skills and knowledge within their families and communities. [34] As the data shows, OSH literacy is an essential life-skill literacy for the 21st century. It is applicable anywhere, across all regions, industries, contexts, languages and demographics.