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Health Literacy From A Health Ethnology Perspective

An Analysis of Everyday Health Practices of Migrant Youth and Families

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Authors:
  1. Uwe H. Bittlingmayer

    1. Institute of Sociology, University of Education Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany

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  2. Zeynep Islertas

    1. Institute of Sociology, University of Education Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany

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  3. Elias Sahrai

    1. Institute of Sociology, University of Education Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany

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  4. Stefanie Harsch

    1. Center for Medicine and Society, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany

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  5. Isabella Bertschi

    1. Institute of Psychology, University Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

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  6. Diana Sahrai

    1. Institute of Educational Sciences, University of Education Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany

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  • An ethnographic research on health literacy.
  • Examples of Turkish, Afghan and Latin American Migrants
  • Studies on health inequalities

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction: On the Necessity and Meaningfulness of a Health Ethnology Perspective in Health Literacy Research

    • Uwe H. Bittlingmayer, Zeynep Islertas, Elias Sahrai, Stefanie Harsch, Isabella Bertschi, Diana Sahrai
    Pages 1-12

  3. State of Research and the Need for a Health Ethnology Perspective

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. Health Literacy in the Context of Health Inequalities: A Framing and a Research Review

      • Uwe H. Bittlingmayer, Zeynep Islertas, Elias Sahrai, Stefanie Harsch, Isabella Bertschi, Diana Sahrai
      Pages 15-35

    3. Health Literacy in Childhood and Adolescence and the Need for Family Health Literacy

      • Uwe H. Bittlingmayer, Zeynep Islertas, Elias Sahrai, Stefanie Harsch, Isabella Bertschi, Diana Sahrai
      Pages 37-88

    4. Health Literacy of Adolescents and Families from a Health Ethnology Perspective: A Theoretical Framing

      • Uwe H. Bittlingmayer, Zeynep Islertas, Elias Sahrai, Stefanie Harsch, Isabella Bertschi, Diana Sahrai
      Pages 89-117

    5. The Ethnographic Study of Health Literacy: Methodological Notes

      • Uwe H. Bittlingmayer, Zeynep Islertas, Elias Sahrai, Stefanie Harsch, Isabella Bertschi, Diana Sahrai
      Pages 119-130

  4. Case Studies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131
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    2. Health Understanding and Health Competences of Two Girls with a Turkish Migration Background

      • Uwe H. Bittlingmayer, Zeynep Islertas, Elias Sahrai, Stefanie Harsch, Isabella Bertschi, Diana Sahrai
      Pages 133-165

    3. The Health Literacy of Male Adolescent Refugees from Afghanistan and the Exploration of Existing Scope for Action

      • Uwe H. Bittlingmayer, Zeynep Islertas, Elias Sahrai, Stefanie Harsch, Isabella Bertschi, Diana Sahrai
      Pages 167-198

    4. Health, Health Literacy and Health Socialisation in Swiss Families with Young Children and a Latin American Migration Background

      • Uwe H. Bittlingmayer, Zeynep Islertas, Elias Sahrai, Stefanie Harsch, Isabella Bertschi, Diana Sahrai
      Pages 199-232

  5. Outlook

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 233-233
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    2. What Do You See When You Look Differently? On the Insight Potential of Ethnographic Health Literacy Research

      • Uwe H. Bittlingmayer, Zeynep Islertas, Elias Sahrai, Stefanie Harsch, Isabella Bertschi, Diana Sahrai
      Pages 235-242

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 243-294
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About this book

This book presents a health ethnology of health literacy among vulnerable groups. In addition to a comprehensive state of research and the development of a theory-oriented health literacy research, three case studies on vulnerable minorities from Germany and Switzerland are presented. The social dimension of health and health literacy, which can hardly be conceptualized in the individualistic competence-theoretical approaches, is particularly clearly highlighted. 

This book is a translation of the original German 1st edition Health Literacy aus gesundheitsethnologischer Perspektive by Uwe H. Bittlingmayer, published by Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature in 2020. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventionaltranslation. Springer Nature works continuously to further the development of tools for the production of books and on the related technologies to support the authors.



Authors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Sociology, University of Education Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany

    Uwe H. Bittlingmayer, Zeynep Islertas, Elias Sahrai

  • Center for Medicine and Society, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany

    Stefanie Harsch

  • Institute of Psychology, University Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

    Isabella Bertschi

  • Institute of Educational Sciences, University of Education Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany

    Diana Sahrai

About the authors

Dr. Uwe H. Bittlingmayer is Professor of Sociology at the Freiburg University of Education.

Dr. Zeynep Islertas and Elias Sahrai are research associates in the BMBF research consortium  Health Literacy in Childhood and Adolescence at the Institute of Sociology at the Freiburg University of Education.

Dr. Stefanie Harsch is a postdoctoral researcher in the BMBF-funded Global Health project focusing on cancer literacy in Sub-Saharan Africa at the University of Freiburg.

Dr. Isabella Bertschi is a research and teaching associate at the Department of Clinical Psychology of the University of Zurich with a focus on children/adolescents and couples/families.

Dr. Diana Sahrai is Professor of Educational Science with a focus on child development & pedagogy at the Freiburg University of Education


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Health Literacy From A Health Ethnology Perspective

  • Book Subtitle: An Analysis of Everyday Health Practices of Migrant Youth and Families

  • Authors: Uwe H. Bittlingmayer, Zeynep Islertas, Elias Sahrai, Stefanie Harsch, Isabella Bertschi, Diana Sahrai

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-42348-3

  • Publisher: Springer Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-42347-6Published: 07 February 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-42348-3Published: 06 February 2024

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 294

  • Number of Illustrations: 29 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Medical Sociology, Public Health, Medicine/Public Health, general, Sociology, general

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