Silva, Susana; Machado, Helena; Galasso, Ilaria; Zimmermann, Bettina M; Botrugno, Carlo (2023). Narratives about distributed health literacy during the COVID-19 pandemic. (In Press). Health, p. 13634593231215715. Sage 10.1177/13634593231215715
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The promotion of health literacy was a key public health strategy during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the role of social networks and relationships for support with health literacy-related tasks in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic is scarcely understood. Moving beyond traditional notions of health literacy, which focus on individual skills and knowledge, this study uses the concept of distributed health literacy to explore how individuals make meaning of and respond to health literacy and make their literacy skills available to others through their relational and socially situated and lived experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on 89 semi-structured interviews conducted in three European countries (Italy, Portugal, and Switzerland) between October and December 2021, we found narratives of stabilization, hybridization, and disruption that show how health literacy concerning COVID-19 is a complex social construct intertwined with emotional, cognitive, and behavioral responses distributed among individuals, communities, and institutions within socioeconomic and political contexts that affect their existence. This paper opens new empirical directions to understand the critical engagement of individuals and communities toward health information aimed at making sense of a complex and prolonged situation of uncertainty in a pandemic.
Item Type: |
Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Art and Cultural Studies > Institute of Philosophy |
UniBE Contributor: |
Zimmermann, Bettina Maria |
Subjects: |
100 Philosophy |
ISSN: |
1461-7196 |
Publisher: |
Sage |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Pubmed Import |
Date Deposited: |
15 Dec 2023 11:46 |
Last Modified: |
16 Dec 2023 01:13 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1177/13634593231215715 |
PubMed ID: |
38095184 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: |
COVID-19 critical health literacy distributed health literacy literacy mediators |
BORIS DOI: |
10.48350/190372 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/190372 |
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