Health Literacy From A Health Ethnology Perspective

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

• On the necessity and meaningfulness of a health ethnological perspective in health literacy research.- Health literacy in the context of health inequalities - a framing and a research overview.- Health literacy in childhood and adolescence and family health literacy.- Health literacy of adolescents and families from a health ethnological perspective. A theoretical framing.- The ethnographic exploration of health literacy: notes on methodology.- Health literacy of refugee male adolescents from Afghanistan and the exploration of existing scope for action.- What do you see when you look differently? On the insight potential of ethnographic health literacy research.