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Incorporating digital health literacy into adult ESL education on the US-Mexico border.

Year: 2012

Type: article

Abstract: related to meeting the health literacy demands required by digitization. This article attempts to fill this gap by exploring the use of the internet as a key source of health information and by looking at best practices in teaching digital health literacy. It describes the development of a digital literacy component within a community-based health literacy/ESL curriculum funded by the National Institutes of Health and implemented on the US-Mexico border.

Source: PubMed

Authors: Erika Mein, Brenda Fuentes, Francisco Soto Más, Andrés Muro

Institution: The University of Texas at El Paso

Language: English

Topic: Health Literacy and Information Accessibility

Subfield: General Health Professions

Field: Health Professions

Domain: Health Sciences

SDGs: Good health and well-being, Quality education

Open Access status: green

Funder: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

Award: Health Literacy and ESL: Integrating Community Based Models for the U.S. Mexico