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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. Theory of fundamental causes - Wikipedia

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    In 1995, Jo C. Phelan and Bruce G. Link developed the theory of fundamental causes. This theory seeks to outline why the association between socioeconomic status (SES) and health disparities has persisted over time, [ 1] particularly when diseases and conditions previously thought to cause morbidity and mortality among low SES individuals have ...

  4. Lack of physical education - Wikipedia

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    A lack of physical activity is one of the main causes for obesity, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and other physical health issues among children and adolescents. [ 21] There is a direct correlation between active participation in physical activity and the health of school age children, therefore a lack of physical education would cause a ...

  5. Mental health literacy - Wikipedia

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    Mental health literacy has been defined as "knowledge and beliefs about mental disorders which aid their recognition, management and prevention. Mental health literacy includes the ability to recognize specific disorders; knowing how to seek mental health information; knowledge of risk factors and causes, of self-treatments, and of professional ...

  6. Health equity - Wikipedia

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    Health is a basic human right and human need, and all human rights are interconnected. Thus, health must be discussed along with all other basic human rights. [ 1] Health equity is defined by the CDC as "the state in which everyone has a fair and just opportunity to attain their highest level of health". [ 5]

  7. Income and fertility - Wikipedia

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    Income and fertility is the association between monetary gain on one hand, and the tendency to produce offspring on the other. There is generally an inverse correlation between income and the total fertility rate within and between nations. [ 3][ 4] The higher the degree of education and GDP per capita of a human population, subpopulation or ...

  8. Will this be the year K-12 students recover from the pandemic ...

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    The achievement gap before and after the pandemic widened during the 2023-2024 school year in nearly all grades, increasing by 36% in reading and 18% in math, according to a 2024 NWEA report ...

  9. Sustainable Development Goal 4 - Wikipedia

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    Health literacy can be described as the ability of an individual to make decisions based on healthcare provider’s advice. [33] Actions are called to include health literacy in basic educational curriculum systems to foster educated individuals to slow down the spread of diseases such as COVID-19.