the eHealth literacy model

Examples of the eHealth literacy model in the following topics:

• Education and Health

  • There are many factors that determine the health literacy level of health education materials or other health interventions.
  • The lack of health literacy affects all segments of the population, although it is disproportionate in certain demographic groups, such as the elderly, ethnic minorities, recent immigrants and persons with low general literacy.
  • Health literacy skills are not only a problem in the public.
  • Due to the increasing influence of the internet for information-seeking and health information distribution purposes, eHealth literacy has become an important topic of research in recent years.
  • The eHealth literacy model is also referred to as the Lily model, which incorporates the following literacies, each of which are instrumental to the overall understanding and measurement of eHealth literacy: basic literacy, computer literacy, information literacy, media literacy, science literacy, health literacy.

• Introducing Health Psychology

  • The field of health psychology includes two sub-fields.
  • The biopsychosocial model views health and illness behaviors as products of biological characteristics (such as genes), behavioral factors (such as lifestyle, stress, and health beliefs), and social conditions (such as cultural influences, family relationships, and social support).
  • Their research often focuses on prevention and intervention programs designed to promote healthier lifestyles (e.g., exercise and nutrition programs).
  • Critical health psychology is concerned with the distribution of power and the impact of power differentials on health behaviors, healthcare systems, and health policy.
  • Define the focus and goals of the field of health psychology

• Health Disparities

  • While technology has advanced the practice of medicine and generally improved health, not all people have the same access to health care or the same quality of health care.
  • According to the Health Resources and Services Administration of the U.S., health disparities are the "population-specific differences in the presence of disease, health outcomes, or access to health care".
  • As of 2009, diseases that were common only in the developed world (e.g., toxocariasis, cysticercosis, chagas, and cytomegalovirus) were becoming a serious concern among economically disadvantaged populations in the U.S.
  • Low Health literacy.
  • While problems with health literacy are not limited to minority groups, the problem can be more pronounced in these groups than in whites due to socioeconomic and educational factors.

• Demographic Transition Theory

  • For example, numerous improvements in public health reduce mortality, especially childhood mortality.
  • Prior to the mid-20th century, these improvements in public health were primarily in the areas of food handling, water supply, sewage, and personal hygiene.
  • Another variable often cited is the increase in female literacy combined with public health education programs which emerged in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • The model is a generalization that applies to these countries as a group and may not accurately describe all individual cases.
  • Break down the demographic transition model/theory into five recognizable stages based on how countries reach industrialization

• Health Insurance

  • One explanation for the higher health care costs in the U.S. is the billing approach.
  • A premium is the amount a policy-holder or his sponsor (e.g. an employer) must pay to a health plan to purchase health coverage.
  • The first, the medical model, focuses on the eradication of illness through diagnosis and effective treatment.
  • The second, the social model, focuses on changes that can be made in society and in people's lifestyles to make the population healthier.
  • Discuss the use of both private and public health insurance and the implications for society's overall health

• Educational Reform in the U.S.

  • Starting in the twentieth century, people have attempted to argue that small improvements in education can have large returns in such areas as health, wealth and well being.
  • For example, in developing countries, increases in women's literacy rates were correlated with increases in women's health, and increasing primary education was correlated with increasing farming efficiencies and income.
  • Many modern reforms have attempted to move away from a model of education in which a teacher lectures and delivers facts to a passive student audience.
  • For example, E.D.
  • Rather than reforming the educational process, they focus on the effects that process achieves by measuring outcomes (e.g., student achievement).

• Paying for Medical Care

  • Two types of health insurance have developed in modern society: private health insurance (or free-market) models and publicly funded health insurance models.
  • The benefits and drawbacks of each of these models are discussed in this and the following section.
  • Advocates of the private model argue that this approach to health care has the following benefits:
  • Some areas of difference are whether the system will be funded from general government revenues (e.g.
  • It may choose to provide the best health care according to some other model, but the cost of this still must be estimated and funded, and there is no uncontroversial definition of best.

• World-Systems Theory

  • In contrast to dependency theory, however, this model recognizes the minimal benefits that are enjoyed by low status countries in the world system.
  • Core countries (e.g., U.S., Japan, Germany) are dominant, capitalist countries characterized by high levels of industrialization and urbanization.
  • Peripheral countries (e.g., most African countries and low income countries in South America) are dependent on core countries for capital and are less industrialized and urbanized.
  • Peripheral countries are usually agrarian, have low literacy rates and lack consistent Internet access.
  • Semi-peripheral countries (e.g., South Korea, Taiwan, Mexico, Brazil, India, Nigeria, South Africa) are less developed than core nations but more developed than peripheral nations.

• The Link Between Psychology and Health

  • The biopsychosocial model, which will be discussed in more detail in the following concept, can be applied to understand these interconnectons.
  • An example of the bidirectional relationship between mental and physical health can be seen in the association between depression and physical exercise.
  • Two symptoms of depression are particularly salient in the context of physical health: lack of motivation and fatigue.
  • For more severe depression, exercise can be a helpful addition alongside other treatments (e.g. medication or psychological therapies).
  • Analyze how psychological and behavioral factors can impact health, and vice versa.

• Introduction to multiple regression exercises

  • The Child Health and Development Studies investigate a range of topics.
  • One study considered all pregnancies between 1960 and 1967 among women in the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan in the San Francisco East Bay area.
  • (e) The variance of the residuals is 249.28, and the variance of the birth weights of all babies in the data set is 332.57.
  • (d) baby weight = 120.58. e = 120 − 120.58 = −0.58.
  • (e) R2 = 0.2504. = 0.2468.