Language, Literacy, and Health: Discourse in Brazil’s National Health System - Couverture rigide

Magalhães, Izabel; Silva, Kênia Lara Da

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1793600880 ISBN 13 : 9781793600882

Editeur : Lexington Books, 2021

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Izabel Magalhães is a researcher in discourse analysis and literacy

Kênia Lara da Silva is a member of the teaching staff in the graduate program in nursing at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Lexington Books
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1793600880
• ISBN 13: 9781793600882
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 296
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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