HLSC 2030U Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Frontier College, Health Literacy, Urban Legend
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Help people struggling with literacy: literacy is a right, anywhere can be a learning place, student-centred learning. Provincial responsibility communicate, compute, and use printed and written materials associated. Literacy the ability to identify, understand, interpret, create, with varying contexts . Twenty percent of canadians have a struggle with literacy. Level 0 and 1 most concerned with. Essential skills nine of them; connected to literacy: read text and use documents (most important in healthcare, demand for soft skills looking someone in the eye, being on time, speaking up, shake hands, non-verbal communication, Why do people struggle: learning interrupted violence at home, poverty, hunger, limited resources library with limited books/texts. Why does it matter: follow written directions, adverse health outcome study in us 3 times likely if you struggle with literacy. People who struggle with literacy have a hard time getting a job. Household income is higher for levels 4 and 5 than those with levels 0 and 1.
