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CANCER CELLS ARE LIKE WEEDS: Use of Visual Analogies to Explain Cancer Treatments

Estimates are that more than 50% of adults living in North America have low health literacy. Unfortunately, much of the available health education material is written at a grade level that most people don’t understand. To facilitate understanding, a 3D animation was created to explain cancer treatme...

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Autores principales: Lukasiewicz, Kara, Ng, Derek, McGill, Gael, Jenkinson, Jodie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: University of Illinois at Chicago Library 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9138546/
http://dx.doi.org/10.5210/jbc.v42i1.9192
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description Estimates are that more than 50% of adults living in North America have low health literacy. Unfortunately, much of the available health education material is written at a grade level that most people don’t understand. To facilitate understanding, a 3D animation was created to explain cancer treatment options using analogies between cancer cells and weeds. The goal is to create educational material that people of all levels of health literacy can understand and learn from.
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spelling pubmed-91385462022-11-18 CANCER CELLS ARE LIKE WEEDS: Use of Visual Analogies to Explain Cancer Treatments Lukasiewicz, Kara Ng, Derek McGill, Gael Jenkinson, Jodie J Biocommun Abstract Estimates are that more than 50% of adults living in North America have low health literacy. Unfortunately, much of the available health education material is written at a grade level that most people don’t understand. To facilitate understanding, a 3D animation was created to explain cancer treatment options using analogies between cancer cells and weeds. The goal is to create educational material that people of all levels of health literacy can understand and learn from. University of Illinois at Chicago Library 2018-08-07 /pmc/articles/PMC9138546/ http://dx.doi.org/10.5210/jbc.v42i1.9192 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 License.
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