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Record W2149857127

Building knowledge in literacy and health.

2006· article· en· W2149857127 on OpenAlexaffabout
Heather Hemming, Lisa Langille

Bibliographic record

VenuePubMed · 2006
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicHealth Literacy and Information Accessibility
Canadian institutionsAcadia University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHealth literacyLiteracyReadabilityPublic relationsDisadvantagedHealth careMedical educationPsychologyPolitical scienceMedicinePedagogyComputer science
DOInot available

Abstract

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Health and literacy share an interesting relationship. The complexities of the relationship between literacy and health need to be recognized by policy-makers and practitioners to dispel myths, reduce stigma attached to low literacy, and empower disadvantaged groups. As we engage in building knowledge in the field, there is a need for multi-sectoral collaboration, both quantitative and qualitative information, and more effective ways to communicate with and educate people with low literacy. At the Second Canadian Conference on Literacy and Health, research reported indicates that in terms of what we know, the field has focussed on: linking literacy and health; examining intervention programs; exploring e-health and rural health; evaluating programs; and empowering people. In exploring what we need to know, researchers at the conference identified the need to understand: the extent of literacy sensitivity among health care providers in diverse settings; the impact of using plain language and readability formulas; the effectiveness of approaches to instructing literacy; and the incorporation of health content and health literacy goals into literacy instruction. Further, we need to create accessible ways of sharing knowledge in the field to build and strengthen existing multi-sector partnerships within and between communities.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.005
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.012
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.011
Threshold uncertainty score0.036

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0050.012
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0030.001
Science and technology studies0.0020.013
Scholarly communication0.0070.007
Open science0.0010.007
Research integrity0.0020.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0110.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.071
GPT teacher head0.451
Teacher spread0.381 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Citations15
Published2006
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