"That is ironic given the convincing case that can be made for the importance of geographic literacy," Mr. Downs said.
Geographic literacy matters for "navigating the international economy or understanding the relationships among people and places that provide critical context for world events," the survey concluded.
Geography frequently takes a back seat to history in the social studies classroom, but teaching geographic literacy is essential if students are going to understanding the challenges and opportunities of our complex world.
Since 1994, geographic literacy -- understanding of places and cultures of the world -- declined among American twelfth-graders, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress NAEPProgress NAEP
Access to health care is a complex matter, ranging from availability of health professionals in one's community to many barriers to care, such as racial/ethnic, geographic, and literacy factors.
Analysis also revealed key challenges to program implementation including geographic limitations, literacy limitations, and limitations of professional respect from healthcare workers to FCHVs.
Analysis,rather, should include factors like class and wealth status, gender, geographic location, age, disability, literacy, language, and device ownership.
These approaches are insufficient for identifying drivers of spatial heterogeneity in diabetes risk and detection, which could be explained, for example, by geographic variation in sociodemographics, health literacy, and use of health care.
Improvements in socioeconomic factors such as maternal literacy, coupled with improved geographic access and service availability, may increase care seeking from formal facilities.
Therefore, the impact of important contextual factors, such as culture, ethnicity, geographic locations, education and health system, on mental health literacy and its measurement is currently unknown.
These are: 1) representativeness of study samples; 2) geographic weighting: 3) adequacy of measurement of mental health literacy (knowledge, stigma, and help-seeking).
