Socio-economic status of farmers rearing Bachaur cattle in its habitat under middle Gangetic plains by P C CHANDRAN, A DEY, S K BARARI, REENA KAMAL, SHANKER DAYAL, ASIT CHAKRABARTI

“…The study revealed that 29.7 % of farmers possessing Bachaur cattle were practicing agriculture apart from rearing cattle. Literacy rate of Bachaur cattle owners ranged from 21.39 to 57.14% for different types of farmers. …”
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The Amount of Consumption of Fruits and Vegetables and Related Factors in the Hospitalized Elderly in Zahedan in 1389 by Shayeste Salehi, Seyed Ali Naji, Maryam Sargazi

“…Results: According to findings the average age of the research sample was 68.8±5.7. As for their literacy rate 70% of the participants in the study were illiterate. …”
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Consequences of the epidemiologic transition in Kerala, India – A public–private-partnership model of health care: A critical analysis by Jaideep C Menon, Aswathy Sreedevi, Chandrashekar Janakiram

“…Moreover, the population of Kerala possesses a high literacy rate. It is well-informed about their rights, while local self-governance and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) actively collaborate to promote community health. …”
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Improved pregnancy outcome in refugees and migrants despite low literacy on the Thai-Burmese border: results of three cross-sectional surveys. by Carrara, V, Hogan, C, De Pree, C, Nosten, F, Mcgready, R

“…Pregnancy outcomes were compared with maternal literacy rate. RESULTS: Overall, 47% (1149/2424) of women were able to read. …”

Health literacy among rural communities: Issues of accessibility to information and media literacy by Haryati Abdul Karim

“…Hence, a study was undertaken in Sabah to further investigate health literacy rate among rural communities there. Drawing data collected from both survey and semi-structured interviews, rural communities’ health literacy is found to be problematic because it is hampered by problems of accessibility to health information and lack of literacy in searching for health information through the new media. …”
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Women and political participation in Katsina Local Government, Nigeria by Ibrahim Yusuf, Aisha

“…Based on the above findings the researcher recommended that government should make concerted efforts in ensuring that there is dramatic increase in terms of female literacy rate this will aid in boosting their sense of psychological engagement with politics.…”
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Health Literacy Levels of Individuals Between 18-65 Years Old and Its Effect on Rational Drug Use by Ahmet Olcay Isler, Gulseren Pamuk, Hilal Aksoy, Kurtulus Ongel

“…For 45.5% of the participants, the health literacy rate was problematic-limited. Comparing participants over 40.5 years old to those of age 40.5 years and younger and participants with a level of education up to high school graduate to those who were at least a university graduate, we found the first ones to have lower average scores. …”
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Estimating global mortality from potentially foodborne diseases: an analysis using vital registration data by Hanson Laura A, Zahn Elizabeth A, Wild Sommer R, Döpfer Dörte, Scott James, Stein Claudia

“…Six variables were included in the final model: <it>percent irrigated land, average calorie supply from animal products, meat production in metric tons, adult literacy rate, adult HIV/AIDS prevalence</it>, and <it>percent of deaths under age 5 caused by diarrheal disease</it>. …”
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Seroprevalence and risk factors of human cystic echinococcosis in Central and North Kashmir, India by Abas Andrabi, Hidayatullah Tak, Wasim Muzamil, Bashir Fomda, Bilal Ahmad Para, Ishteyaq Majeed Shah, Ishfaq Majeed

“…Results showed that age group, gender, contact with dogs, occupation, and literacy rate were significantly related with the rate of seroprevalence of cystic echinococcosis infection in Central and North Kashmir. …”
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Socioeconomic correlates of face mask use among pedestrians during the COVID-19 pandemic: An ecological study by Zahra Rahimi, Mohammad Javad Mohammadi, Marzieh Araban, Gholam Abbas Shirali, Bahman Cheraghian

“…Three socioeconomic indicators including Land price, Literacy rate, and the Employment rate for each neighborhood were used in this study. …”
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Assessment of Factors Associated with Life Expectancy Gap Based on the Preston Curve: A Cross-Sectional Study by Fatemeh Yari, Lotfali Agheli, Hossein Sadeghi, Sajjad Faraji Dizaji

“…Results: The identified drivers of gains or losses in longevity relative to income included using at least basic sanitation (P = 0.012) and drinking water services (P = 0.045), Universal Health Coverage (UHC) (P = 0.012), access to electricity (P = 0.004), CO2 emissions (P = 0.037), inequality in income (P = 0.003), health expenditure per capita (P = 0.000), non-communicable (P = 0.000) and communicable diseases and maternal, prenatal, and nutrition conditions (P = 0.000), literacy rate (P = 0.057), and road injuries (P = 0.001). …”
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Maternal Mortality A Challenge? by Shital G. Sonone, Varsha N. Patil, Meenakshi Surve, M. A. Shinde

“…Cases were distributed ac-cording to their age, literacy rate, residence,socioeconomic status, ante-natal care, gestational age, gravida/parity, place of referral, pregnancy outcome, and place of delivery, perinatal outcome and etiological factors. …”
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Systematic review on the conservation genetics of African savannah elephants by Daniel Zacarias, Luis Mauricio Bini, Rafael Loyola

“…Research outputs are associated with the existence of long-term conservation/research projects and research potential as measured by the literacy rate and the number of higher education institutions in a country. …”
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Determinants of good vitamin A consumption in the 12 East Africa Countries using recent Demographic and health survey. by Maereg Wolde, Zemenu Tadesse Tessema

“…From the multilevel logistic regression model, women's age, marital status, maternal education, wealth index, maternal occupation, children's age in a month, media exposure, literacy rate, and parity were significantly associated with good vitamin A consumption in East Africa.…”
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Socio-economic status of Pantja goat rearers of Uttarakhand by B S KHADDA, BRIJESH SINGH, S K SINGH, R K SHARMA, S K SHARMA, DEVESH SINGH

“…Majority (90.39%) of goat rearers belonged to Hindu religion, 55.97% of respondents lived in nuclear family with 53.64% having a family size of more than 5 members. Overall literacy rate was 64.96%. Majority of the farmers rearing Pantja goats were from Scheduled castes (43.88%) and 82.95% belonged to the middle age group. …”
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Flood vulnerability assessment in the Jamuna river floodplain using multi-criteria decision analysis: A case study in Jamalpur district, Bangladesh by Khadiza Tul Kobra Nahin, Sumaiya Binte Islam, Safat Mahmud, Irfan Hossain

“…Assessment of flood vulnerability included consideration of physical indicators like rainfall, drainage density, distance from river, slope, land use land cover, elevation, soil classes as well as social indicators like population density, female density, literacy rate, number of shelters, unmetalled road and number of health personnel. …”
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Effect of maternal HIV status on vaccination coverage among sub-Saharan African children: A socio-ecological analysis by Olatunji O. Adetokunboh, Olalekan A. Uthman, Charles S. Wiysonge

“…HIV prevalence among women, antiretroviral therapy coverage, gross domestic product per capita, human development index, adult literacy rate and sub-region). Improved prevention of mother-to-child transmission services might have contributed to some extent to the higher DTP3 vaccination coverage among the HIV-exposed children. …”
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Determinants of good vitamin A consumption in the 12 East Africa Countries using recent Demographic and health survey by Maereg Wolde, Zemenu Tadesse Tessema

“…From the multilevel logistic regression model, women’s age, marital status, maternal education, wealth index, maternal occupation, children’s age in a month, media exposure, literacy rate, and parity were significantly associated with good vitamin A consumption in East Africa. …”
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Beyond the traditional : a new paradigm for Pakistani schools by Quadri, Mahjabeen, 1977-

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Knowledge and awareness about breast cancer and its early symptoms among medical and non-medical students of southern Punjab, Pakistan by Noreen, M, Murad, S, Furqan, M, Sultan, A, Bloodsworth, P

“…A general lack of public awareness regarding the disease often results in late diagnosis and poor treatment outcomes. The literacy rate of the Southern Punjab (Pakistan) is low compared to its Northern part. …”