Health Literacy From A Health Ethnology Perspective
An Analysis of Everyday Health Practices of Migrant Youth and Families
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Health Literacy in the Context of Health Inequalities: A Framing and a Research Review
In this chapter, we provide a general overview of the current state of health literacy research. In doing so, we take the liberty of proceeding more selectively and more broadly than is now the case with the s...
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Health Literacy of Adolescents and Families from a Health Ethnology Perspective: A Theoretical Framing
Having presented the current state of health literacy research in the context of health inequalities in the previous two chapters, this chapter now aims to achieve a change of perspective, which seems appropri...
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Health Understanding and Health Competences of Two Girls with a Turkish Migration Background
The fact that Germany is an immigration country can be exemplified by various historical events in the Federal Republic. First and foremost, the promotion of labour migration after the Second World War should ...
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Health, Health Literacy and Health Socialisation in Swiss Families with Young Children and a Latin American Migration Background
The topic of immigration or migration has been regularly in the spotlight in Switzerland, too, and is characterised by ambivalences. On the one hand, there are repeated country-wide discourses and mass media prod...
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The Fundamentals, Misuse and Abuses of Bibliometrics
Bibliometric parameters are used as the yardstick for judging the productivity and scientific impact of the scholarship of scholars, including the viability and prestige of academic programs, universities, and...
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Bibliometric Profile of the Health Sciences Professors in Nigerian Universities
This chapter investigates the research productivity and scientific impact of the scholarship of frontline health sciences academics in Nigeria by analyzing the bibliometric performance scores of 345 full profe...
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Bibliometric Profile of the Nigerian Health Sciences Professors in the Diaspora
This chapter evaluates the research productivity and scientific impact of Nigerian health sciences frontline academics in the diaspora. Forty-three Nigerian health sciences professors employed in universities ...
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Introduction: On the Necessity and Meaningfulness of a Health Ethnology Perspective in Health Literacy Research
This book aims to make a theoretical and empirical contribution to health ethnology-inspired health literacy research in particular and public health research in general. Whenever an interdisciplinary approach...
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Health Literacy in Childhood and Adolescence and the Need for Family Health Literacy
Childhood and adolescence are generally and on average considered to be the healthiest periods of life in the overall biography. Nevertheless, in recent years there has been an increased attention to the topic...
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The Ethnographic Study of Health Literacy: Methodological Notes
The previous chapters have, from a theoretical perspective and on a broad literature basis, presented in detail how health literacy can be understood, which operationalisations (with their respective strengths...
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The Health Literacy of Male Adolescent Refugees from Afghanistan and the Exploration of Existing Scope for Action
As mentioned in the state of the research, when it comes to refugees in general and refugee children and adolescents in particular, very little is known about the health literacy they might have available rega...
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What Do You See When You Look Differently? On the Insight Potential of Ethnographic Health Literacy Research
The study presented here is first of all a project report of a study carried out within the framework of a larger BMBF network for research into the health literacy of children and adolescents (www...
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Introduction
Around the world, research output is the significant yardstick used for measuring a nation’s scientific and technological advancement. Academic program administrators and policymakers now use bibliometric meth...
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Thematic Evaluation of Nigeria’s Bibliometric Research Publications
This chapter investigates the characteristics and trends of bibliometric articles from Nigeria between 1974 and 2021 and offers the first in-depth analysis of the publications. A total of 83 bibliometric publi...
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Bibliometric Profile of the Nigerian Academy of Science Health Sciences Fellows
This chapter assesses the research productivity and scientific impact of the scholarship of the Nigerian Academy of Science health sciences fellows. Of the 100 fellows studied, 37% belong to medicine/dentistry...
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Summative Evaluation and Recommendations
This concluding chapter compares the research output and scientific impact of the scholarship of the health sciences professors in the Nigerian universities, Nigerian professors employed in foreign universitie...
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The Importance of New Media and eHealth Information in the Everyday Life of Female Adolescents with Turkish Migration Background in Germany
In many cases in quantitative social-epidemiological studies, persons with a migration background are described as a “vulnerable group”. They often have fewer economic resources and a lower educational status....
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Reflections on Health Literacy in the European and Colombian Context
In this chapter reflections on health literacy in the European and Colombian context help us to consider health literacy outside Western borders and how health literacy is reflected in public policies in Europ...
