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Handbook of Research on Holistic Perspectives in Gamification for Clinical Practice
The state of being subject to death.
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Gamification and Health Literacy
Badia Faddoul (The Johns Hopkins Hospital, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-9522-1.ch003
Abstract
The growing body of knowledge on the effectiveness and usability of digital games in delivering health information to consumers reveals that the academic attention toward gaming has increased. An overabundance of health information for consumers is often very daunting. Healthcare workers need resources that focus on health literacy, and consumers demand easy to comprehend information in a user friendly format. This chapter explores how gamification as a mode of information exchange could provide answers to the health literacy issue and demonstrates how games can potentially be a natural platform to deliver information to consumers.
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Changing Climate: Threat to Human Health
It is the number of deaths in a defined population during a specified time period.
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Physical and Mental Health Issues of Elderly Women in India: A Review
The number of deaths in a population at a given time or location is known as mortality.
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Surveillance for Early Detection of High-Consequence Pests and Pathogens
Mortality is related to the number of deaths caused by the health event under investigation. It can be communicated as a rate or as an absolute number ( Hernandez & Kim, 2020 ).
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