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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Yes, you can access Language, Literacy, and Health by Izabel Magalhães,Kênia Lara da Silva,Júlia Argenta,Rebeca Pereira in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Communication Studies. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Publisher

Lexington Books

Year

2021

eBook ISBN

9781978795839

Edition

Topic

Languages & Linguistics

Subtopic

Communication Studies

Index

Languages & Linguistics

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I: The Ethnographic-Discursive Method, the Research Projects, and the Theoretical Approach
Chapter 1: The Ethnographic-Discursive Method: Four Research Projects in Brazil
Chapter 2: Discourse Analysis, Literacy Studies, and Multimodality: Health Practice and the Therapeutic Bond
II: Health Literacies
Chapter 3: Contributions of the Studies of Language and Literacy as a Social Practice to Health
Chapter 4: Literacy Practices and Literacy Events in Health
Chapter 5: Texts and Narratives in Healthcare
III: Evaluation and Discursive Representation in Healthcare
Chapter 6: Patients’ Evaluations
Chapter 7: Health Professionals’ Evaluations
Chapter 8: Health Discourses and Practices on the Ground
IV: Case Studies in Language and Health
Chapter 9: Case Study 1: Health Professionals
Chapter 10: Case Study 2: Patients
V: Social Change in Health Practice
Chapter 11: Health Professional Education: The Education of the Nursing Technician and the Representation of the Unified Heal h System (SUS)
Chapter 12: Making Patients Responsible for Their Health: The Construction of Health Discourse in a Community of Belo Horizon e
Conclusion
References
Index
About the Authors

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