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3It is argued that full social accessibility has become too complicated. We don't really need to apply lifelong literacy to low-literate people. Instead, we must curb the proliferation of increasingly complex systems with double (or even triple) authorization and lots of jargon. I therefore think that 18% low literacy is simply too little, only when 50% of the people belong to the low-literate group we may finally throw these systems aside. Where is sustainable living in human connection? If this is supposedly illiteracy, and our systems are so complex, it seems rather to indicate that we have drastically misplaced our priorities for people and their usefulness.
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It is argued that the power of large systems often literally gets in the way of job satisfaction for professionals such as doctors, nurses and teachers. And this system power is growing and growing, everywhere we are being tracked and watched by systems, data driven by cameras, GPS, control systems. The digital crumbs that we leave behind via our smart devices are data gold in these systems, to set up evermore systems. Defined in terms of the systems, we are all at risk of becoming illiterate, even university trained professionals.
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Education plays a major role in this paradox: the cultural diversity that is increased by immigration is eliminated by successful education: education aims to maximise the opportunities for every child within the emerging global culture and thus reduce cultural diversity. The road from the Enlightenment that would bring us a better world is increasingly proving to be a dead end, especially with regard to the climate and the depletion of the resources the planet can provide (ecology). Just now that a global culture has emerged into which all those other cultures are assimilated, the question is whether cultures that deal more sustainably with ecology and have problems accommodating to global culture, should not be given more voice in the transition to a more sustainable global culture. It is argued that in popular music forms an example in which successful productions have a multitude of cultural styles, from world music to hip-hop to rock. In fact, almost everyone from various cultural backgrounds can relate to a certain style. Pop music therefore does not necessarily work as an institution that reduces diversity. Education does just that, unconsciously, and often with extensive inclusion programs. She could learn from pop music!
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Data has been deemed fundamental to the digital transformation in society and businesses. It can influence all spheres of a company. Data-driven insights enable companies to make better decisions and thus to become more competitive in the market. The demand for data-literate employees and citizens needs to be supplied through the current generation of students. To help meet this demand, this research aims to better understand the status quo of data literacy in today’s higher education and investigates how students’ data literacy can be improved during their Bachelor learning trajectories. Four specific studies were carried out to define and distinguish the key concepts, explore the demand for data literate employees in the job market, examine students’ data literacy levels, and experiment with a possible method to enhance students’ data competences. The results drawn from our empirical research reveal that our current education does not yet adequately equip our students with the level of data literacy required by the real business world. Moreover, the findings demonstrate the effectiveness of practice-oriented, data-driven research to enhance students’ overall data competences and lead to a win-win-win situation for the main stakeholders. The contributions and recommendations based on this research are also discussed.
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Background
People from lower and middle socioeconomic classes and vulnerable populations are among the worst affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, thus exacerbating disparities and the digital divide.
Objective
To draw a portrait of e-services as a digital approach to support digital health literacy in vulnerable populations amid the COVID-19 infodemic, and identify the barriers and facilitators for their implementation.
Methods
A scoping review was performed to gather published literature with a broad range of study designs and grey literature without exclusions based on country of publication. A search was created in Medline (Ovid) in March 2021 and translated to Medline, PsycINFO, Scopus and CINAHL with Full Text (EBSCOhost). The combined literature search generated 819 manuscripts. To be included, manuscripts had to be written in English, and present information on digital intervention(s) (e.g. social media) used to enable or increase digital health literacy among vulnerable populations during the COVID-19 pandemic (e.g. older adults, Indigenous people living on reserve).
Results
Five articles were included in the study. Various digital health literacy-enabling e-services have been implemented in different vulnerable populations. Identified e-services aimed to increase disease knowledge, digital health literacy and social media usage, help in coping with changes in routines and practices, decrease fear and anxiety, increase digital knowledge and skills, decrease health literacy barriers and increase technology acceptance in specific groups. Many facilitators of digital health literacy-enabling e-services implementation were identified in expectant mothers and their families, older adults and people with low-income. Barriers such as low literacy limited to no knowledge about the viruses, medium of contamination, treatment options played an important role in distracting and believing in misinformation and disinformation. Poor health literacy was the only barrier found, which may hinder the understanding of individual health needs, illness processes and treatments for people with HIV/AIDS.
Conclusions
The literature on the topic is scarce, sparse and immature. We did not find any literature on digital health literacy in Indigenous people, though we targeted this vulnerable population. Although only a few papers were included, two types of health conditions were covered by the literature on digital health literacy-enabling e-services, namely chronic conditions and conditions that are new to the patients. Digital health literacy can help improve prevention and adherence to a healthy lifestyle, improve capacity building and enable users to take the best advantage of the options available, thus strengthening the patient’s involvement in health decisions and empowerment, and finally improving health outcomes. Therefore, there is an urgent need to pursue research on digital health literacy and develop digital platforms to help solve current and future COVID-19-related health needs.
OVERZICHTSARTIKEL
Europe’s aging population is leading to a growing number of people affected by chronic disease, which will continue over the coming decades. Healthcare systems are under pressure to deliver appropriate care, partly due to the burden imposed on their limited financial and human resources by the growing number of people with (multiple) chronic diseases. Therefore, there is a strong call for patient self-management to meet these patients’ healthcare needs. While many patients experience medication self-management as difficult, it poses additional challenges for people with limited health literacy. This thesis aims to explore the needs of patients with a chronic disease and limited health literacy regarding medication self-management and how support for medication self-management can be tailored to those needs.
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Digital transformation has captured much enthusiasm from both academia and industry. It is essential for any organization to incorporate digitalization into its strategy. The state-of-the-art technologies have enhanced the data storage and processing capabilities. Together with the exponentially increased data enabled by digitalization, firms have unprecedented opportunities to make decisions based on a large scale and diversified data, making more informed decisions. Companies can monetize data through three main paths: revenue growth, cost reduction and new business models. The continuous development of technologies will further augment the amount of data and improve the data users’ experiences. However, the challenges of ethical use, security and quality of data are salient. While machines will extensively assist humans in data-driven decision-making, humans’ data literacy is crucial to optimize the partnership between human and machines. Therefore, education has the obligations to enhance students’ competences of working with data, namely data literacy, to better live and work in this evolutionary digital world.
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From the publisher's website: Large groups in society, in particular people with low literacy, lack the necessary proactivity and problem-solving skills to be self-reliant. One omnipresent problem area where these skills are relevant regards filling in forms and questionnaires. These problems could be potentially alleviated by taking advantage of the possibilities of information and communication technology (ICT), for example by offering alternatives to text, interactive self-explaining scales and easily accessible background information on the questionnaires’ rationale. The goal of this paper was to present explorative design guidelines for developing interactive questionnaires for low-literate persons. The guidelines have been derived during a user-centered design process of the Dutch Talking Touch Screen Questionnaire (DTTSQ), an interactive health assessment questionnaire used in physical therapy. The DTTSQ was developed to support patients with low health literacy, meaning they have problems with seeking, understanding and using health information. A decent number of guidelines have been derived and presented according to an existing, comprehensive model. Also, lessons learned were derived from including low-literate persons in the user-centered design process. The guidelines should be made available to ICT developers and, when applied properly, will contribute to the advancement of (health) literacy and empower citizens to fully participate in society
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In the four studies comprising this dissertation, we aim to shed more light on the role of implementation quality of FLPs. In the first study, we reviewed the literature on implementation quality of FLPs, to gain insight into how implementation has been assessed in studies so far, what previous studies reveal on (systematic differences in) the implementation of FLPs, and the extent to which implementation quality relates to intervention effects. In the second study, we measured and analyzed implementation quality and effects of a specific Dutch FLP called ‘Early Education at Home’. In light of the hypothesis posed in the literature regarding implementation quality of FLPs in low-SES families, and our hypotheses regarding implementation quality of FLPs in ethnic-minority and bilingual families, we additionally analyzed relations among these parent characteristics and program implementation. In the third and fourth study we took a more detailed look at parent-child interactions during literacy-related activities included in FLPs such as EEH: shared reading and socalled prompting board activities. Observations of these activities can provide insight into how target group parents respond to different FLP activities and, more specifically, if certain activities are more suited to some groups than to others.
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