Health Literacy From A Health Ethnology Perspective

This book presents a health ethnology of health literacy among vulnerable groups. In addition to a comprehensive state of research and the development of a theory-oriented health literacy research, three case studies on vulnerable minorities from Germany and Switzerland are presented. The social dimension of health and health literacy, which can hardly be conceptualized in the individualistic competence-theoretical approaches, is particularly clearly highlighted. This book is a translation of the original German 1 st edition Health Literacy aus gesundheitsethnologischer Perspektive by Uwe H. Bittlingmayer, published by Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature in 2020. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventionaltranslation. Springer Nature works continuously to further the development of tools for the production of books and on the related technologies to support the authors.

An ethnographic research on health literacy. Examples of Turkish, Afghan and Latin American Migrants Studies on health inequalities

Autorentext

Dr. Uwe H. Bittlingmayer ist Professor für Soziologie an der Pädagogischen Hochschule Freiburg. Zeynep Islertas, Elias Sahrai und Stefanie Harsch sind Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter*innen im BMBF-Forschungsverbund Health Literacy in Childhood and Adolescence am Institut für Soziologie an der Pädagogischen Hochschule Freiburg. Isabella Bertschi ist Lehrstuhlassistentin am Lehrstuhl für Klinische Psychologie mit Schwerpunkt Kinder/Jugendliche und Paare/Familien am Psychologischen Institut der Universität Zürich. Dr. Diana Sahrai leitet die Professur für Soziales Lernen unter erschwerten Bedingungen am Institut für Spezielle Pädagogik und Psychologie an der Pädagogischen Hochschule der Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz, Muttenz.

Inhalt
On the necessity and meaningfulness of a health ethnological perspective in health literacy research.- Health literacy in the context of health inequalities - a framing and a research overview.- Health literacy in childhood and adolescence and family health literacy.- Health literacy of adolescents and families from a health ethnological perspective. A theoretical framing.- The ethnographic exploration of health literacy: notes on methodology.- Health literacy of refugee male adolescents from Afghanistan and the exploration of existing scope for action.- What do you see when you look differently? On the insight potential of ethnographic health literacy research.