Language, Literacy, and Health

Izabel Magalhães; Kênia Lara da Silva

doi:10.5771/9781793600899

Summary

Language, Literacy, and Health: Discourse in Brazil’s National Health System analyzes language, literacy, and health as social practices in Brazil’s national health system, the Unified Health System (SUS), with a particular focus on the Family Health Strategy program. The SUS was established in the 1990s, offering free consultations, health promotion activities, and home visits by a professional team to the Brazilian population. Using research conducted in two different Brazilian regions, the Northeast and the Southeast, Izabel Magalhães and Kênia Lara da Silva discuss language and literacy as discourse—a very important dimension of health practice—and different uses of texts, including multimodal texts. The research, analysis, and the authors’ ethnographic approach bring to light some issues with SUS practices, and the authors suggest improvements. This book contributes to the debate about language and literacy in health practices, in which patients are partly responsible for keeping well.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2021
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-0088-2
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-0089-9
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 288
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
1. Frameworks for Investigating Language, Literacy, and Health No access
2. A Multisited Ethnographic Study No access
3. Brazil’s National Health System No access
4. Transdisciplinarity No access
5. Language and Health No access
6. This Book No access
1. 1. The Ethnographic-Discursive Method No access
  2. The Research Project in Ceará No access
  3. The Sistema Único de Saúde/SUS (Unified Health System) No access
  4. Social Actors in Health Practice No access
  5. The Research Project in Paraíba No access
  6. The Project at the Nursing Technical Course No access
  7. The Research Project in a Community of Belo Horizonte No access
  8. Closing Remarks No access
2. 1. Discourse, Literacy, and Semiotic Resources No access
  2. Health Practice and Discourse No access
  3. The Therapeutic Bond No access
  4. Closing Remarks No access
1. 1. The National Policy for Permanent Education in Health No access
  2. Health Promotion Literacies No access
  3. Institutional Multimodal Discourse No access
  4. Closing Remarks No access
2. 1. Literacy and Health: Is This the Recipe for a Healthy Practice? No access
  2. Literacy Events: Workshops with Health Professionals and Patients No access
  3. Closing Remarks No access
3. 1. Uses of Texts by Health Professionals in Our Field Notes No access
  2. Narratives: Uses of Texts by Health Professionals in Interviews and Focus Groups No access
  3. Uses of Texts, the SUS, and Covid-19 No access
  4. Closing Remarks No access
1. 1. Evaluation and Modality No access
  2. Evaluations in Pacatuba No access
  3. Evaluations in Fortaleza No access
  4. Closing Remarks No access
2. 1. Evaluations in Pacatuba No access
  2. Evaluations in Fortaleza No access
  3. Closing Remarks No access
3. 1. Discursive Representations of the Community in the Territory of Ilha do Bispo No access
  2. Discursive Representations of the Ilha do Bispo Community: Repercussions in Health Promotion Actions No access
  3. Transdisciplinarity in Language and Health No access
  4. Closing Remarks No access
1. 1. Health Discourses No access
  2. Appraisal of the SUS No access
  3. A Social View of Health Literacy No access
  4. Therapeutic Bond No access
  5. Closing Remarks No access
2. 1. Health Discourses No access
  2. Appraisal of the SUS No access
  3. A Social View of Health Literacy No access
  4. Therapeutic Bond No access
  5. Closing Remarks No access
1. 1. Representation of the SUS by Former Students and Teachers of a Nursing Technical Course No access
  2. Closing Remarks No access
2. 1. Concept of Health for the Population No access
  2. Contradictions between People’s Speech and Everyday Life No access
  3. Patients’ Position No access
  4. Closing Remarks No access
Conclusion No access Pages 249 - 256
References No access Pages 257 - 280
Index No access Pages 281 - 286
About the Authors No access Pages 287 - 288