Language, literacy, and health : discourse in Brazil's national health system / Izabel Magalhães.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Magalhães, Maria Izabel S., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Health--Social aspects--Brazil.

Health.

Medical policy--Brazil.

Medical policy.

Language and medicine--Brazil.

Language and medicine.

Health literacy--Brazil.

Health literacy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 pages)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2021]

Summary:

This book analyzes language, literacy, and health as social practices, and the relations among them, with a focus on Brazil´s national health system. With the help of an ethnographic lens, the book analyzes several discourses and uses of texts, including multimodal texts.

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

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

Chapter 11: Health Professional Education: The Education of the Nursing Technician and the Representation of the Unified Health System ( SUS )

Representation of the SUS by Former Students and Teachers of a Nursing Technical Course

Chapter 12: Making Patients Responsible for Their Health: The Construction of Health Discourse in a Community of Belo Horizonte

Concept of Health for the Population

Contradictions between People's Speech and Everyday Life

Patients' Position

Conclusion

References

Index

About the Authors.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-7936-0089-9