Competencies of health personnel for the practice of health literacy in Brazil: A Delphi consensus survey

Cesar, Flaviane Cristina Rocha; Sousa, Thassara Felipe de; Alves, Angela Gilda; Moraes, Katarinne Lima; Barbosa, María Alves; Oliveira, Lizete Malagoni de Almeida Cavalcante

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0271361

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“…Therefore, HL can exist at different levels, in each there is an inner variation of increased or diminished skills, as well as the interaction with a context and the diminished skills that could impact the process of HL itself. The contextual aspect of HL does involve healthcare organizations’ responsiveness to the individual and community HL ( Dodson et al, 2015 ), as well as HL competent health professionals ( Cesar et al, 2022 ) to ultimately tackle and reduce health inequities ( Schillinger, 2021 ).…”

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Awakening Undergraduate Nursing Students’ Critical Awareness About Men's Health, Health Literacy and Nursing Practice

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Background This article reports an evaluative replication study, including a workshop inspired by Paulo Freire's critical pedagogy. Purpose: Assess how the nursing students’ participation in critiquing Canadian empirical evidence on men's health literacy provokes new perceptions; explore students’ intentions of incorporating the aforementioned contents into their professional practice; and test students’ skills to formulate a hypothetical short action plan about men's health literacy. Methods A qualitative evaluation study inspired by the qualitative program evaluation approach. The setting was a university-based Canadian undergraduate nursing program located in a major metropolitan city. Seventeen undergraduate students (representing 3.65% of year 4 student population) composed the sample. The educational intervention was two workshops (6 h duration; February 2017) including a lecture about men's health literacy with video presentations, class discussions and group work using Freire's method of reflection and discussion for awareness awakening. Hypothetical health literacy promotion was the key outcome. All interactions were digitally audiorecorded, verbatim transcribed and submitted to thematic analysis having as themes: Perspectives of awareness and knowledge expansion, and New personal-professional assets. Results Students were able to relate new knowledge with their own experiences in the classroom or in the practicum. Application of new knowledge was related to students’ social circles and reported familiar health matters. Cultural and community life shaped knowledge expansion and references to men's behaviors. Conclusions Mobilization of personal knowledge awoke students’ awareness about gaps in the nursing curriculum and the paucity of experiences in clinical placements relating to men's health literacy.

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Letting people flourish: defining and suggesting skills for maintaining and improving positive health

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BackgroundThe concept of “positive health” emerged from the need for a holistic and more dynamic perspective on health, emphasising the ability of individuals to adapt and self-manage. The positive health conversation tool helps understand how people score on six positive health dimensions. However, skills within these dimensions to maintain or improve health have not yet been described. This is important for enabling individuals to put health advice into practise. Therefore, this paper aims to define and suggest skills for maintaining and improving positive health.SubsectionsSuggestions for definitions of skills within the positive health dimensions are described using the functional, interactive, and critical health literacy framework. Additionally, executive functions and life skills were incorporated. Moreover, the environment's role in these individual skills was noted, mentioning organisational health literacy that emphasises organisations' responsibility to provide comprehensible health information to all individuals. We propose that health promotion interventions can incorporate the proposed skills in practical exercises while aligning intervention materials and implementation tools with end-users and implementers.Discussion and conclusionThe suggested skills for maintaining and improving positive health are a first step towards a more comprehensive understanding and open to discussion. These skills may also be applied to other practical conversation tools for maintaining or improving health. Increasing positive health through the defined skills may be especially relevant to those with a lower socioeconomic position who also have limited health literacy and thereby may contribute to reducing health inequalities. Taken together, strengthening the defined skills may hopefully contribute to allowing people to flourish in life.

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Competencies of health personnel for the practice of health literacy in Brazil: A Delphi consensus survey

Cited by 2 publications

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Awakening Undergraduate Nursing Students’ Critical Awareness About Men's Health, Health Literacy and Nursing Practice

Awakening Undergraduate Nursing Students’ Critical Awareness About Men's Health, Health Literacy and Nursing Practice

Letting people flourish: defining and suggesting skills for maintaining and improving positive health

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