Building Information Resilience: How do Resettling Refugees Connect with Health Information in Regional Landscapes – Implications for Health Literacy

Abstract

The study explores how resettling refugees experience a new health environment and develop health literacy practice. The concept of information resilience, which emerges from the grounded experiences of learning to live well is introduced. The study also explores how health narratives are constructed, disseminated and circulated by this particular cohort.

Stranger in a strange land; enabling information resilience in resettlement landscapes

“…The concept of information resilience emerges from a recently reported study of health literacy and the health information experience of resettling refugees (Lloyd, 2014). The study investigated how resettling refugees build an understanding about the health information landscape of their new country and developed ways of knowing to inform their health related decision making (Lloyd, 2014).…”

“…The study investigated how resettling refugees build an understanding about the health information landscape of their new country and developed ways of knowing to inform their health related decision making (Lloyd, 2014). The methodology for this study has been described in detail in Lloyd (2014) and is briefly summarised here as a qualitative study that employed grounded theory method to analyse data. The study sample comprised 20 participants, mainly of African background, which in itself is culturally diverse.…”

“…This paper highlights an emerging concept of information resilience. In doing so it draws from the literature in other fields that describe resilience and then it goes on to describes research into the resettlement practices of a group of refugees as they learn to access health information (Lloyd, 2014). An information-focused perspective locates information and its operationalisation as focal points that act as a catalyst and underpins the emergence of resilience.…”

“…To emphasise an information-focused approach, the term information resilience has been adopted (Lloyd, 2013;2014). As a concept, information resilience highlights the role of information, and the contribution that information practices and use play in the resilience process.…”

Helsesøstres oppfatninger av mødres interaktive ernæringsfremmende allmenndannelse

“…FHL handler om lese-og skriveferdigheter og elementaere anatomiske og fysiologiske kunnskaper om menneskekroppen, som er nød-vendig for å kunne forstå og anvende helseråd (9,10,17). Flere internasjonale studier har vist at mange innvandrere har lavere FHL enn majoritetsbefolkningen (15,16). De mest «avanserte» kunnskapene og ferdighetene innen HL anses å vaere kritisk HL (CHL), som dreier seg om å kunne kritisk vurdere og helseråd og avsendere av slik informasjon (9,10,12,17).…”