Andrew Pleasant
Biographic Data
| ID | 275598 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Pleasant |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Pleasant |
| SIGNATURE | PLEASANT A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0302-5233 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Using formative research to tailor a community intervention focused on the prevention of chronic disease
Fear of Covid-19 Scale—Associations of Its Scores with Health Literacy and Health-Related Behaviors among Medical Students
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic causes fear, as its immediate consequences for the public have produced unprecedented challenges for the education and healthcare systems. We aimed to validate the fear of COVID-19 scale (FCoV-19S) and examine the association of its scores with health literacy and health-related behaviors among medical students. A cross-sectional study was conducted from 7 to 29 April 2020 on 5423 students at eight…
A theory-based self-report measure of health literacy
We set out to test a theory-based measure of health literacy. To do so, we included the newly developed Calgary Charter on Health Literacy scale in Pre- and Post-evaluation of the Life Enhancement Program at multiple sites. The program focusing on health literacy and the prevention of chronic disease is conducted with health-care provider organization partners across the United States. In testing the reliability and validity of the new measure of…
Health Literacy and Cultural Competence in Integrative Preventive Health and Medicine
As the United States and the world continue to experience unsustainable growth in the rates of chronic disease and rising healthcare costs, most urgently needed are upstream solutions—far before the point of people needing and seeking medical treatment. What is required to address this untenable situation is a shift in the underlying premises of the health and medical philosophies and infrastructure. This chapter will propose that an evidence-bas…
A qualitative first look at the Arts for Behavior Change Program
This article reports on the process outcomes of the first pilot project of the Arts for Behavior Change (ABC) Program, held in two neighboring shantytowns in Lima, Perú. The ABC Program improved health literacy through the arts to empower communities to identify and adopt healthy behaviors. The ABC Program created Theater for Health, a new approach that integrates theories and practices from the Theater of the Oppressed family of methods with the…
A tale of two health literacies
Public health concerns underlie a considerable portion of the global burden of disease, increasing the utility and need for promoting and assessing the knowledge about public health issues. Health literacy is generally agreed upon as a means to find, understand, analyze and use information to make better decisions about health and to ultimately reduce inequities in health. A public health literacy knowledge scale was tested in China, Mexico, Ghan…
Understanding health literacy
A long and yet unfinished history of investigating how individual capabilities and social processes explain or predict health indicates that poor education, low literacy, poor health and early death are strongly linked around the world. However, the complexity of those relationships is not fully understood. In this article, we propose an expanded model of health literacy characterized by four domains: fundamental literacy (reading, writing, speak…
The 'Invisible Hand
The dominant economic discourse of the industrialized world - in political, academic, and popular terms - is neoclassical economics. A founding proposition is that an 'invisible hand' aggregates individual decisions driven by rational self-interest into socially optimal outcomes. We draw upon economics as well as the sociology and philosophy of science to question this fundamental proposition and investigate neoclassical economic theory's dominan…
US Energy Conservation and Efficiency
The literature of environmental communication
This paper examines the growth and development of the literature of “environmental communication” research. The paper collects citations of all papers matching specified keywords covering environmental communication topics in the social science journal literature from relevant indices. The indices used were: the Institute for Scientific Information's (ISI) Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science), the ISI Arts and Humanities Citation Index…
The literature of environmental communication
This paper examines the growth and development of the literature of “environmental communication” research. The paper collects citations of all papers matching specified keywords covering environmental communication topics in the social science journal literature from relevant indices. The indices used were: the Institute for Scientific Information's (ISI) Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science), the ISI Arts and Humanities Citation Index…
The 'Invisible Hand
The dominant economic discourse of the industrialized world - in political, academic, and popular terms - is neoclassical economics. A founding proposition is that an 'invisible hand' aggregates individual decisions driven by rational self-interest into socially optimal outcomes. We draw upon economics as well as the sociology and philosophy of science to question this fundamental proposition and investigate neoclassical economic theory's dominan…
A theory-based self-report measure of health literacy
We set out to test a theory-based measure of health literacy. To do so, we included the newly developed Calgary Charter on Health Literacy scale in Pre- and Post-evaluation of the Life Enhancement Program at multiple sites. The program focusing on health literacy and the prevention of chronic disease is conducted with health-care provider organization partners across the United States. In testing the reliability and validity of the new measure of…
A qualitative first look at the Arts for Behavior Change Program
This article reports on the process outcomes of the first pilot project of the Arts for Behavior Change (ABC) Program, held in two neighboring shantytowns in Lima, Perú. The ABC Program improved health literacy through the arts to empower communities to identify and adopt healthy behaviors. The ABC Program created Theater for Health, a new approach that integrates theories and practices from the Theater of the Oppressed family of methods with the…
The literature of environmental communication
This paper examines the growth and development of the literature of “environmental communication” research. The paper collects citations of all papers matching specified keywords covering environmental communication topics in the social science journal literature from relevant indices. The indices used were: the Institute for Scientific Information's (ISI) Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science), the ISI Arts and Humanities Citation Index…
The literature of environmental communication
This paper examines the growth and development of the literature of “environmental communication” research. The paper collects citations of all papers matching specified keywords covering environmental communication topics in the social science journal literature from relevant indices. The indices used were: the Institute for Scientific Information's (ISI) Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science), the ISI Arts and Humanities Citation Index…
US Energy Conservation and Efficiency
Understanding health literacy
A long and yet unfinished history of investigating how individual capabilities and social processes explain or predict health indicates that poor education, low literacy, poor health and early death are strongly linked around the world. However, the complexity of those relationships is not fully understood. In this article, we propose an expanded model of health literacy characterized by four domains: fundamental literacy (reading, writing, speak…
The 'Invisible Hand
The dominant economic discourse of the industrialized world - in political, academic, and popular terms - is neoclassical economics. A founding proposition is that an 'invisible hand' aggregates individual decisions driven by rational self-interest into socially optimal outcomes. We draw upon economics as well as the sociology and philosophy of science to question this fundamental proposition and investigate neoclassical economic theory's dominan…
A tale of two health literacies
Public health concerns underlie a considerable portion of the global burden of disease, increasing the utility and need for promoting and assessing the knowledge about public health issues. Health literacy is generally agreed upon as a means to find, understand, analyze and use information to make better decisions about health and to ultimately reduce inequities in health. A public health literacy knowledge scale was tested in China, Mexico, Ghan…
A qualitative first look at the Arts for Behavior Change Program
This article reports on the process outcomes of the first pilot project of the Arts for Behavior Change (ABC) Program, held in two neighboring shantytowns in Lima, Perú. The ABC Program improved health literacy through the arts to empower communities to identify and adopt healthy behaviors. The ABC Program created Theater for Health, a new approach that integrates theories and practices from the Theater of the Oppressed family of methods with the…
Health Literacy and Cultural Competence in Integrative Preventive Health and Medicine
As the United States and the world continue to experience unsustainable growth in the rates of chronic disease and rising healthcare costs, most urgently needed are upstream solutions—far before the point of people needing and seeking medical treatment. What is required to address this untenable situation is a shift in the underlying premises of the health and medical philosophies and infrastructure. This chapter will propose that an evidence-bas…
A theory-based self-report measure of health literacy
We set out to test a theory-based measure of health literacy. To do so, we included the newly developed Calgary Charter on Health Literacy scale in Pre- and Post-evaluation of the Life Enhancement Program at multiple sites. The program focusing on health literacy and the prevention of chronic disease is conducted with health-care provider organization partners across the United States. In testing the reliability and validity of the new measure of…
Using formative research to tailor a community intervention focused on the prevention of chronic disease
Fear of Covid-19 Scale—Associations of Its Scores with Health Literacy and Health-Related Behaviors among Medical Students
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic causes fear, as its immediate consequences for the public have produced unprecedented challenges for the education and healthcare systems. We aimed to validate the fear of COVID-19 scale (FCoV-19S) and examine the association of its scores with health literacy and health-related behaviors among medical students. A cross-sectional study was conducted from 7 to 29 April 2020 on 5423 students at eight…
Political science (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Pedagogy (7 works) · Health care (6 works) · Health literacy (6 works) · Literacy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · Health Literacy and Information Accessibility (4 works)