Sentences with phrase «better health literacy»

«These students» higher cognitive skills may lead them to better health literacy and decision - making.

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These conditions are: parental confidence about the future, improved status of women, literacy, better health and sanitation.

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The truck is a multi-purpose mobile unit powered by solar energy, which provides space for farmer training sessions in good agricultural practices, basic health care services, literacy training and child labour sensitisation programmes.

Through BiruhTesfa, girls receive literacy, life, and livelihood skills, as well as education about HIV and reproductive health (HIV / AIDS services are provided by PEPFAR).

As a result of her work at the Women's Bridget was invited to speak at the National Literacy Trust conference and as a result of this, in addition to teaching parents, she runs workshops for Health Professionals, Birth Workers and Children's Centre Staff on optimising the start for babies as well as giving regular conference talks across the country.

He said, «The Catholic Church has done very well in promoting literacy and health care.

«These findings suggested that patient information materials aimed at patients with chronic kidney disease are pitched well above the average patient's literacy level, so that most patients wouldn't be able to read and understand the health messages,» Webster said.

Science literacy enables individuals to use science to make more well - informed decisions in areas related to science and technology that are relevant in their daily lives, such as in personal health and the use of energy resources.

Mental Health Literacy: Empowering the Community to Take Action for Better Mental Health.

The Scottish Attainment Fund will provide an additional # 750 million over five years to close the attainment gap by supporting schools to improve literacy, numeracy, and health and well - being in some of our most disadvantaged areas.

The goals included: narrowing the gap in literacy and numeracy achievement in primary schools and at GCSE; ensuring young people develop key strengths such as character and good mental health; narrowing the gulf in the numbers of youngsters continuing their education and training after GCSEs; and narrowing the gap between rich and poor students graduating from university.

Poverty - related factors that intervene in students» ability to learn include health and well - being, limited literacy and language development, access to material resources, and level of mobility.

«Central to this is the Scottish Attainment Challenge, which is providing # 750 million during the course of this Parliament to tackle the poverty - related attainment gap by supporting hundreds of schools develop approaches to improve literacy, numeracy and health and well - being.»

Currently, she is the principal investigator of an experimental evaluation of the 4Rs Program — a universal school - based intervention designed to integrate social - emotional learning and literacy development — funded by National Institute of Mental Health, the Institute for Education Sciences at the U.S. Department of Education, as well as by the William T. Grant Foundation.

Programs must collaborate with parents to promote children's health and well - being by providing medical, oral, nutrition, and mental health education support services that are understandable to individuals with low health literacy.

In the last several years, through the direct assistance of city departments, the district has been able to institute new behavioral health supports, create 12 new community schools, improve out - of - school time programming, increase early literacy, better prepare children for kindergarten, bring critical infrastructure repair, and end the teachers» contract stalemate.

Green Apple Day of Service projects focus on making school improvements to benefit students in line with the three pillars of a green school: reduced environmental impact, health and well - being and increased sustainability and environmental literacy.

These improvements, known as «wraparound services,» have been successful in other turnaround efforts, notably the Harlem Children's Zone in New York, where families get free access to an array of health and nutrition counseling as well as after - school programs, truancy prevention, literacy programs, financial advice and domestic - crisis resolution.

The bill also contains several other provisions that NAESP has been advocating for tirelessly on behalf of the nation's Pre-K-8 principals, such as authorization of the Preschool Development Grants for states to expand early learning opportunities, targeted programs to support literacy instruction, afterschool program funding, as well as the opportunity for funds to be used to address student mental health, arts integration and deeper professional learning for principals and other educators on use of technology in learning.

I suggested that he might win more lasting achievement gains by establishing school clinics to ensure that all children had good health care and by directing resources to early - childhood literacy programs and after - school enrichment.

By comparing fourth - grade literacy outcomes against the experiences and inputs that produced these results — including indicators of health - care and preschool access, family economic well - being, mental - health and child - welfare services, nutrition, and comprehensive school quality — we can identify gaps in how we are serving children and target investments and reforms to those areas with the greatest potential to improve children's long - term life outcomes.

Among their recommendations are providing equitable resources, high - quality education for all, intensive early literacy programs, well - planned after - school and summer programs, and social and health service coordination for families.

Latin Songbirds depicts «three left - leaning Latin American leaders who are trying to reverse a history of rule by wealthy oligarchies, reject the U.S.'s and IMF's neoliberal economic policies, take control of their own resources, and improve the lives of their citizens, especially in the areas of literacy, health care, and economic well - being,» states artist Christa Maiwald.

The state of Kerala in southwest India is a socio - economic abberation: despite a per capita GDP of US$ 247, far below the world average, its 32 million people enjoy good health care, US - level birth rates, literacy rates and life expectancies.

It would mean cuts to programs in areas like housing, after - school, nutrition, teacher professional development, student aid, health care, work - study programs, literacy and more - all programs that support our current and future workforce, and the health and well - being of the families, schools, and communities in which our children are cared for and educated.

The clear social gradient associated with children's vocabulary, emerging literacy, well - being and behaviour is evident from birth to school entry.1 These trajectories track into adolescence and correspond to poorer educational attainment, income and health across the life course.2 — 10 Neuroimaging research extends the evidence for these suboptimal trajectories, showing that children raised in poverty from infancy are more likely to have delayed brain growth with smaller volumetric size of the regions particularly responsible for executive functioning and language.11 This evidence supports the need for further effort to redress inequities that arise from the impact of adversity during the potential developmental window of opportunity in early childhood.

The programs had reduced rates of crime and drug abuse among young people as well as providing benefits such as improved health outcomes and self - esteem, greater engagement with education and training, and increased school attendance and literacy.

Relative to children with no ACEs, children who experienced ACEs had increased odds of having below - average academic skills including poor literacy skills, as well as attention problems, social problems, and aggression, placing them at significant risk for poor school achievement, which is associated with poor health.23 Our study adds to the growing literature on adverse outcomes associated with ACEs3 — 9,24 — 28 by pointing to ACEs during early childhood as a risk factor for child academic and behavioral problems that have implications for education and health trajectories, as well as achievement gaps and health disparities.

Home visitors also often act as literacy teachers, parenting coaches, role models, and experts on topics related to parent and child health and well - being.

Professionals complete a vignette - based mental health literacy survey before and after training to allow an evaluation of training effectiveness, as well as a program evaluation allowing professionals» feedback to us.