Health Literacy as a Complex Practice

dc.creator	Judy Hunter
dc.creator	Margaret Franken
dc.date	2012-06-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:20:07Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:20:07Z
dc.identifier	1441-0559
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/bc9f4cd2eba8478ea1a98c300879f404
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/19992
dc.description	<!-- @font-face { font-family: "Arial"; }@font-face { font-family: "Cambria Math"; }@font-face { font-family: "Baskerville"; }@font-face { font-family: "PMingLiU"; }@font-face { font-family: "AGaramond"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 1pt; text-align: justify; font-size: 11pt; font-family: AGaramond; }p.LNSText, li.LNSText, div.LNSText { margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-indent: 1cm; line-height: 13pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Baskerville; }.MsoChpDefault { font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; }div.WordSection1 { page: WordSection1; } --> <p class="LNSText">As attention to health literacy grows as an area for policy intervention,<span> </span>policy discourse continues to draw on skills deficit and patient compliance, buttressed by the dominant political discourse of individual responsibility. But for patients, the health domain is interwoven with linguistic challenges, significant affective issues, underlying cultural dimensions, political and economic exigencies, variable access to resources, and cognitive and situated complexity. From these perspectives, this article reports on findings of an ongoing study of health literacy demands in the Midlands region of the North Island of New Zealand, an area of high ethnic and socio-economic diversity.<span> </span>The study focuses on patients with diabetes and cardiovascular disease - two chronic areas strongly associated with ‘failure to care’ and identifed as having reached epidemic proportions. It analyses work to date:<span> </span>health professionals’ conceptions of and responses to perceived patients’ health literacy needs, and health information documents for patients. Implications of the study support the need for improvement in language and literacy skills among patients, but also the recognition of complexity and a collective responsibility for effective health communication.</p>
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	University of Technology, Sydney
dc.relation	http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/lnj/article/view/2618
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1441-0559
dc.rights	CC BY
dc.source	Literacy and Numeracy Studies, Vol 20, Iss 1 (2012)
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	Health Literacy as a Complex Practice
dc.type	article