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ReportPublication 2021What It Means to Be a Science-Literate Citizen in a Digital World
Science literacy is often held up as crucial for avoiding science-related misinformation and enabling more …
Science literacy is often held up as crucial for avoiding science-related misinformation and enabling more informed individual and collective decision-making. But research has not yet examined whether science literacy actually enables this, nor what skills it would need to encompass to do so. This report addresses three questions to outline what it should mean to be science literate in today’s world: (1) How should we conceptualize science literacy? (2) How can we achieve this science…
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ReportPublication 2017Communicating Science Effectively: A Research Agenda
Science and technology are embedded in virtually every aspect of modern life. As a result, …
Science and technology are embedded in virtually every aspect of modern life. As a result, people face an increasing need to integrate information from science with their personal values and other considerations as they make important life decisions about medical care, the safety of foods, what to do about climate change, and many other issues. Communicating science effectively, however, is a complex task and an acquired skill. Moreover, the approaches to communicating science that will…
Social Determinants | Decision Psychology | Preferences/Values | Priority Setting/Ethics | Climate/Environment | Culture/Society | Energy/Engineering | Education/Labor | Health/Medicine | Science/Technology | North America -
ReportPublication 2021What the American Public Thinks About Vaccines and How Framing Can Help
This paper explores the question of public understandings, beliefs, and attitudes about vaccination in general, …
This paper explores the question of public understandings, beliefs, and attitudes about vaccination in general, and childhood vaccination more specifically. The authors provide an overview of the existing literature on public thinking about vaccination and on effective communication strategies and interventions that have been either suggested or empirically tested. This description was extracted from the publication abstract.
Social Determinants | Preferences/Values | Infectious Diseases | Child/Nutrition | Culture/Society | Health/Medicine | Science/Technology | North America -
ToolWeb Portal 2024Disinformation
This topic portal, created by the Atlantic Council, focuses on the issue of disinformation, defined …
This topic portal, created by the Atlantic Council, focuses on the issue of disinformation, defined as false or misleading information spread with the intention to deceive. It is distinct from misinformation, which is the unintentional spread of false information. They argue that the “rise of the internet and online social networks has altered the scope and scale at which people access, consume, and communicate information but that the same technologies that have democratized access to…
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ToolWeb Portal 2023General Audience Toolkit
This toolkit contains resources for anyone who wants to help increase public confidence in and …
This toolkit contains resources for anyone who wants to help increase public confidence in and uptake of COVID-19 vaccines. This toolkit includes information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and culturally tailored materials from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) COVID-19 public education campaign and its team of multicultural experts. This description was extracted from the toolkit website.
Social Determinants | Preferences/Values | Infectious Diseases | Culture/Society | Health/Medicine | Science/Technology | North America -
DataPublication 2019Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2019: Illuminating Inequalities
This data publication developed by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty …
This data publication developed by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) offers data for 101 countries and 5.7 billion people, comparing acute multidimensional poverty at regional, national, and subnational levels using the global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI). The global MPI, developed by the OPHI in 2010, is one tool to comprehensively measure progress towards Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 1, which aims to end poverty in all…
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DataPublication 2019HDR Country Profile: Afghanistan
This country profile on Afghanistan is published by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Each …
This country profile on Afghanistan is published by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Each online country profile also links to a downloadable data table and a briefing note for its country. The Human Development Report Office releases data each year, including the Human Development Index (HDI), the Inequality-Adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI), the Gender Development Index (GDI), the Gender Inequality Index (GII), and the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI). These indices reflect the UNDP human…
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DataInteractive 2018Beyond Income: A Broader Picture of Poverty
This interactive web portal, hosted by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), explores the multidimensional …
This interactive web portal, hosted by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), explores the multidimensional nature of poverty around the world. The Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) measures poverty across three dimensions—health, education, and living standards—and uses 10 indicators such as lacking access to clean water, adequate nutrition, or primary education. This web portal allows users to explore each of these 10 indicators through illustrative, media-rich country cases.
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DataWeb Portal 2022Global Human Development Indicators: Country Profiles
This web portal, published by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), provides the most recent …
This web portal, published by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), provides the most recent human development data for countries across the world. Topics examined range from health and education, to poverty and human security. Each online country profile also links to a downloadable data table and a briefing note for its country. The Human Development Report Office releases five indices each year: the Human Development Index (HDI), the Inequality-Adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI), the…
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