Universität zu Köln

Harzheim, Laura ORCID: 0000-0002-9789-7023, Lorke, Mariya, Woopen, Christiane and Juenger, Saskia (2020). Health Literacy as Communicative Action-A Qualitative Study among Persons at Risk in the Context of Predictive and Preventive Medicine. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health, 17 (5). BASEL: MDPI. ISSN 1660-4601

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Abstract

Predictive and preventive medicine play an increasingly important role in public debates on health, providing cutting-edge technologies with the potential to measure and predict individual risks of getting ill. This leads to an ever-expanding definitional space between being healthy and being ill, challenging the individual's everyday life, attitudes and perceptions towards the self and the process of health-related decision-making. How do the condition of 'being at risk' and individual health literacy interrelate? is the leading question of the current contribution. Drawing on empirical qualitative data, collected by means of narrative interviews with persons at risk in four clinical fields, a bottom-up ethnographic and health sciences perspective on health literacy (with an emphasis on critical health literacy) is employed. The findings will be embedded within theoretical approaches dealing with power relations and communication in healthcare encounters, particularly Habermas' theory of communicative action. The core outcome of our study is a concept for an overarching model of health literacy in the context of health-related risk prediction across indications, based on empirical insights gained through interpretative analysis of the four clinical domains.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Harzheim, Laura UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-9789-7023 UNSPECIFIED Lorke, Mariya UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Woopen, Christiane UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Juenger, Saskia UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-342357
DOI:	10.3390/ijerph17051718
Journal or Publication Title:	Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health
Volume:	17
Number:	5
Date:	2020
Publisher:	MDPI
Place of Publication:	BASEL
ISSN:	1660-4601
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language SHARED DECISION-MAKING; INFORMATION; CARE; STRATEGIES Multiple languages Environmental Sciences; Public, Environmental & Occupational Health Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/34235