Abstract
Health literacy is an increasingly important issue amongst scholars of health studies and medical practitioners. This essay seeks to understand how health knowledge is co-constructed by different agencies and the role of health communication in this process can contribute to everyday-ing health literacy. In addition, this essay attempts to understand how health communication becomes an everyday practice in identifying disease-specific needs. Copyright © 2016 The Author(s).
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Communicating, networking, interacting: The international year of global understanding – IYGU |
| Editors | Margaret E. ROBERTSON |
| Place of Publication | Switzerland |
| Publisher | Springer International Publishing |
| Pages | 63-70 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9783319454719 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9783319454702 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2016 |
Keywords
- Health literacy
- Policy-making
- Everyday health needs
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