Accessibility – Health Literacy – Health Information
Interdisciplinary Approaches to an Emerging Field of Communication
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Isabel Rink (Hg.), Sarah Ahrens (Hg.), Rebecca Schulz (Hg.), Janina Kröger (Hg.), Sergio Hernández Garrido (Hg.), Loraine Keller (Hg.), Accessibility – Health Literacy – Health Information (2022), Frank & Timme, Berlin, ISBN: 9783732991099
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Accesses
Accesses
Beschreibung / Abstract
Recent studies show that more than half of the German population have difficulties in accessing, understanding, appraising, and applying health information, thus giving accessibility in health communication new traction. This volume links research and practice in the areas of accessible communication, health information and health literacy. The articles focus on these fields from a methodological, text and/or user perspective. The authors examine how to improve accessibility of research methods and how to adapt existing methods to answer questions about accessibility of health information. They discuss accessibility of text types and link accessibility to individual, organisational and professional health literacy. Contributions also give insight to the implementation of Easy and Plain Language in health information.
All articles stem from different fields: in bringing them together, this volume fosters interdisciplinary exchange to communicate accessible health information and methods to specific vulnerable target groups.
All articles stem from different fields: in bringing them together, this volume fosters interdisciplinary exchange to communicate accessible health information and methods to specific vulnerable target groups.
Beschreibung
The editors work at the University of Hildesheim in the research team “Accessible Medical Communication”. Besides Sarah Ahrens, Sergio Hernández Garrido, Janina Kröger, and Rebecca Schulz are staff members of the Research Centre for Easy Language. Loraine Keller is also editor and translator for accessible media formats. Isabel Rink is tenured lecturer at the Institute for Translatology and Specialised Communication as well as Managing Director of the Hildesheim Research Centre for Easy Language.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- BEGINN
- Preface
- Sarah Ahrens / Rebecca Schulz / Kröger Janina / Sergio Hernández Garrido / Loraine Keller / Isabel Rink
- Accessible Communication and Health Literacy
- Ruth J. P. Dalemans / Stephanie von Helden-Lenzen / Steffy Stans
- The futility of asking incomprehensible questions: making questionnaires communication-friendly
- Nicola Häberle
- Accessibility as a tool for health-literate organizations
- Communication, access and navigation in organizational health literacy models and questionnaires
- Julian Hörner
- Accessible and reliable health information on the internet
- How we introduced Plain Language to apotheken-umschau.de – a project report
- Loraine Keller
- Digital Participation or Digital Divide ?
- The role of the media barrier, acceptance and trust in health information from the perspective of elderly users
- Janina Kröger / Sarah Ahrens
- An interdisciplinary approach to translation-oriented text analysis in intralingual translation research
- Kristin Leyerer / Anja Tüchler / Rita Schmutzler / Susanne Weg-Remers
- Providing Evidence-Based Health Information in Easy and Plain Language
- Procedures and Experiences of the Cancer Information Service
- Janine Michele / Martin Silke
- Health literacy
- Perspectives from occupational action of health care professionals
- Giulia Pedrini
- Diathesis in comprehensibility-enhanced texts in the medical field
- An analysis of layperson summaries of clinical trials
- Isabel Rink / Rebecca Schulz
- Data collection in the field of Accessible Health Communication