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Language, literacy, and health : discourse in Brazil's national health system / Izabel Magalhães and Kênia Lara da Silva ; with Júlia Argenta and Rebeca Pereira.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Magalhães, Maria Izabel S., author.
- Silva, Kênia Lara, 1979- author.
- Argenta, Júlia, author.
- Pereira, Rebeca, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Health--Social aspects--Brazil.
- Health.
- Health literacy--Brazil.
- Health literacy.
- Language and medicine--Brazil.
- Language and medicine.
- Medical policy--Brazil.
- Medical policy.
- Health--Social aspects.
- Brazil.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations (some color)
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2022]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Frameworks for Investigating Language, Literacy, and Health
- A Multisited Ethnographic Study
- Brazil's National Health System
- Transdisciplinarity
- Language and Health
- This Book
- I: The Ethnographic-Discursive Method, the Research Projects, and the Theoretical Approach
- Chapter 1: The Ethnographic-Discursive Method: Four Research Projects in Brazil
- The Ethnographic-Discursive Method
- The Research Project in Ceará
- The Sistema Único de Saúde/SUS (Unified Health System)
- Social Actors in Health Practice
- The Research Project in Paraíba
- The Project at the Nursing Technical Course
- The Research Project in a Community of Belo Horizonte
- Closing Remarks
- Chapter 2: Discourse Analysis, Literacy Studies, and Multimodality: Health Practice and the Therapeutic Bond
- Discourse, Literacy, and Semiotic Resources
- Health Practice and Discourse
- The Therapeutic Bond
- II: Health Literacies
- Chapter 3: Contributions of the Studies of Language and Literacy as a Social Practice to Health
- The National Policy for Permanent Education in Health
- Health Promotion Literacies
- Institutional Multimodal Discourse
- Chapter 4: Literacy Practices and Literacy Events in Health
- Literacy and Health: Is This the Recipe for a Healthy Practice?
- Literacy Events: Workshops with Health Professionals and Patients
- Chapter 5: Texts and Narratives in Healthcare
- Uses of Texts by Health Professionals in Our Field Notes
- Narratives: Uses of Texts by Health Professionals in Interviews and Focus Groups
- Uses of Texts, the SUS, and Covid-19
- Closing Remarks
- III: Evaluation and Discursive Representation in Healthcare
- Chapter 6: Patients' Evaluations
- Evaluation and Modality
- Evaluations in Pacatuba
- Evaluations in Fortaleza
- Chapter 7: Health Professionals' Evaluations
- Chapter 8: Health Discourses and Practices on the Ground
- Discursive Representations of the Community in the Territory of Ilha do Bispo
- Discursive Representations of the Ilha do Bispo Community: Repercussions in Health Promotion Actions
- Transdisciplinarity in Language and Health
- IV: Case Studies in Language and Health
- Chapter 9: Case Study 1: Health Professionals
- Health Discourses
- Appraisal of the SUS
- A Social View of Health Literacy
- Therapeutic Bond
- Chapter 10: Case Study 2: Patients
- V: Social Change in Health Practice
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 20, 2022).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Magalhães, Maria Izabel S. Language, literacy, and health
- ISBN:
- 9781793600899
- 1793600899
- Publisher Number:
- 40030926918
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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