scholarly journals 26.E. Workshop: Context and practice of health literacy foundations

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
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Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Health Literacy ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Nutrition Status ◽  
The Social

Abstract The Shanghai declaration (WHO 2016) stated the role that health literacy (HL) may play in the struggle for more equitable society. Moving from good intentions to social practices of HL reveals that the social context where HL is embedded is a key determinant of the establishment of social practices that may play a critical role in wellbeing and quality of life. Exploring how the translation of HL into a social context is achieved or how the social context may determine strategies to face the challenges that HL production need, is a relevant domain in the public health and health promotion agenda. The aim of this workshop is to share with the audience an opportunity to immerse in five social contexts and explore their HL practices. The first perspective is from Cameroon and the emphasis is on HL role in increasing health knowledge. The authors share the results of an ethnographic analysis of the role of school children in the development of HL in families. The second presentation will unveil one of the topics that is influencing health and well-being of children today when a large struggle to counter act sugar beverages is at the root of obesity. Therefore, a study case from Portugal will focus on HL impact on nutrition status and water intake in children showing the relevance of the social context considered a way forward in the struggle for health promotion. From Germany a third presentation will consider migrants and refugees children's role in promoting the family HL. Recent research on HL stresses the importance of the social context for children's HL, especially among vulnerable groups such as migrants and refugees. However, reaching migrants is difficult, so experts recommend adult second language courses (SLC) as promising settings to promote HL of migrants and their families. Yet, empirical evidence of promoting family health literacy (FHL) in SLC is scarce and therefore addressing such a topic is seminal towards improving the Shanghai HL vision above referred. In Switzerland, adolescent's mental health promotion is the focus of a psychoeducational tool in the pediatric primary care (PPC) that will be considered in the fourth presentation. The aim is to scrutinized this social context, increase mental health literacy of adolescents by implementing proactive mental health strategies and create an opportunity for open discussion with their pediatrician about mental health. Finally, the fifth presentation aims at illuminating (digital) HL practices using applied linguistics. HL is key to making well-informed health decision in analogous and virtual social situations and organizational contexts. Multiple models and instruments of HL exist, but an in-depth understanding of the various HL-related everyday life situations and their digital and linguistic requirements are scarce. Here, the expertise and necessary skills for everyday communication, including health, are the object of an ethnographic research to help fill this gap. Key messages The relevance of the social context and how changes of this context can lead to transformations that influence health literacy of children is a way forward in the struggle for health promotion. share with the audience an opportunity to immerse in five social contexts and explore their HL practices.

scholarly journals “Just as Canadian as Anyone Else”? Experiences of Second-Class Citizenship and the Mental Health of Young Immigrant and Refugee Men in Canada

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 210-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carla T. Hilario ◽  
John L. Oliffe ◽  
Josephine P. Wong ◽  
Annette J. Browne ◽  
Joy L. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Transnational Migration ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Social ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Immigrant And Refugee

In recent years, the experiences of immigrant and refugee young men have drawn attention worldwide. Human-induced environmental disasters, local and global conflicts, and increasingly inequitable distributions of wealth have shaped transnational migration patterns. Canada is home to a large immigrant and refugee population, particularly in its urban areas, and supporting the mental health and well-being of these communities is of critical importance. The aim of this article is to report findings from a qualitative study on the social context of mental health among immigrant and refugee young men, with a focus on their migration and resettlement experiences. Informed by the conceptual lens of social context, a thematic narrative analysis approach was used to examine qualitative data from individual and group interviews with 33 young men (age 15 to 22 years) self-identified as immigrants or refugees and were living in Greater Vancouver, western Canada. Three thematic narratives were identified: a better life, living the (immigrant) dream, and starting again from way below. The narratives characterized the social context for immigrant and refugee young men and were connected by a central theme of negotiating second-class citizenship. Implications include the need for mental health frameworks that address marginalization and take into account the contexts and discourses that shape the mental health of immigrant and refugee populations in Canada and worldwide.

scholarly journals Workshop: Health Literacy in the workplace: from health literate organizations to resilient individuals

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (Supplement_4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Health Literacy ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Work Settings ◽  
The Social ◽  
Literacy Research

Abstract This workshop aim is to explore the call that is proposed by the WHO declarations of Nairobi and Shangai, that institutions should move forward to become health literate organizations. This workshop addresses qualitative and quantitative health literacy research work settings of health and non-health professionals. Health literacy has evolved into a significant public health and health promotion goal which is especially influenced by the social and cultural background, the availability of resources, and the settings in which it is practised. Basically, health literacy can be defined as the knowledge and skills to access, understand, appraise and apply health information in order to promote health and well-being. For a long period most research had focused on adult patients in clinical settings, but in the recent past there have been significant efforts from research, practice, and policy towards citizens in other organizational settings, which is due to findings stating that effective health literacy promotion begins and continues across all settings in a whole society approach since health is mostly shaped outside the health care setting. Such approaches can also be influential when addressing the reduction of health inequalities. The main objective of this workshop is to present first time empirical findings and developments from ongoing research projects of the Health Literacy in workplace (ProLiSa). Thereby, it will shed light on the health literacy of professionals, and link the current debate with contemporary public health approaches to advance the field of health literacy. The workshop will include 5 presentations with up to 15 minutes input followed by discussions. The first presentation is a tentative to understand health literacy and ehealth tools to improve quality of life. From Brazil a second presentation will consider health care organizations (hospitals) and the perspective to move to health literate organizations. From Portugal a third presentation will consider migration and integration and the case of health literacy as a foundation to promote cultural sensitiveness in the organizational setting. A forth presentation will consider how communicating with migrants can be a challenge and how children’s health literacy, digital technology can become and critical help. Finally the last presentation considers the role of health literacy and physical activity as buffers to counter act work related stress. This workshop offers a forum for researchers, practitioners and policy-makers interested in health literacy. By dialogue and two-way communication lively interaction and vivid discussions will be facilitated. This will allow discussing results with regard to their benefit for improving health literacy research, practice, and policy-making, support further synergies, break down barriers between research infrastructures, facilitate networking and collaboration, and support international capacity building. Key messages There is need for empirical health literacy research in work settings. It will allow informing sustainable and effective interventions and the development and application of better tools. Addressing the social environment will have impact on public health research & practice, will facilitate the development of health literate organizations, new concepts/strategies for health promotion.

Systems and lives

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Cribb
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Quality Improvement ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Systems Thinking ◽  
Clinical Medicine ◽  
Population Level ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Social

This chapter explores some of the things that are entailed by calls for anti-reductionism or ‘holism’ in health policy. In particular, it considers what is sometimes called the ‘social context’ of health. Many reforming currents in health policy are informed by, and draw attention to, the importance of seeing health—including clinical medicine and individual well-being—in social terms. It has, for example, become a truism in health services quality-improvement work that a realistic prospect of change depends upon ‘systems thinking’—analysing and addressing the broad range of factors that shape the practices one is hoping to improve. Systems thinking has strong resonances and overlaps with traditions in public health and health promotion which also, of course, look at health in social terms, including as something that needs addressing at a population level.

Supporting Students' Mental Health and Emotional Well-Being in Inclusive Classrooms

2016 ◽  
pp. 637-667
Author(s):  
Dustin Graham ◽  
Isabel Killoran ◽  
Gillian Parekh
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Literacy ◽  
Media Literacy ◽  
School Boards ◽  
Mental Health Literacy ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Inclusive Classrooms ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Critical Media

Many governments, organizations, and school boards have recently committed to focusing their attention on children's Mental Health and Emotional Well-being (MHEW) (e.g., Kidger, Gunnell, Biddle, Campbell, & Donovan, 2010; Mental Health Commission of Canada, 2013; Ontario Ministry of Education, 2013b). Although often left out of the conversation, teachers play a critical role in supporting and fostering children's MHEW. The purpose of this chapter is threefold: (1) to introduce educators to a critical mental health literacy (CMHL) approach, (2) to identify the teacher's role in supporting MHEW in inclusive classrooms, and (3) to support educators in their efforts to provide inclusive classrooms that accommodate all needs, including MHEW, through the introduction of mindfulness and critical media literacy.

Supporting Students' Mental Health and Emotional Well-Being in Inclusive Classrooms

2016 ◽  
pp. 86-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dustin Graham ◽  
Isabel Killoran ◽  
Gillian Parekh
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Literacy ◽  
Media Literacy ◽  
School Boards ◽  
Mental Health Literacy ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Inclusive Classrooms ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Critical Media

Many governments, organizations, and school boards have recently committed to focusing their attention on children's Mental Health and Emotional Well-being (MHEW) (e.g., Kidger, Gunnell, Biddle, Campbell, & Donovan, 2010; Mental Health Commission of Canada, 2013; Ontario Ministry of Education, 2013b). Although often left out of the conversation, teachers play a critical role in supporting and fostering children's MHEW. The purpose of this chapter is threefold: (1) to introduce educators to a critical mental health literacy (CMHL) approach, (2) to identify the teacher's role in supporting MHEW in inclusive classrooms, and (3) to support educators in their efforts to provide inclusive classrooms that accommodate all needs, including MHEW, through the introduction of mindfulness and critical media literacy.

Mental health of people in the military depends on social inclusion: why not for all of us?

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 201-207
Author(s):  
Sue Holttum
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Traumatic Stress ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Potential Contribution ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Military

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss five recent papers on military people and those close to them, and to suggest how taking into account their families and sense of social inclusion is key to mental well-being. Design/methodology/approach There are four papers about military people’s adjustment when they return from a war zone, often with experience of traumatic stress. A fifth paper discusses getting soldiers back to war when they experience traumatic stress. Findings The studies on reintegration into civilian life focus mainly on the family. They suggest that involvement of the spouse or close partner in treatment may be crucial. The military person and their family are faced with forging new roles and ways of doing things. Joint treatment may best help them do this and functioning well as a family with everyone feeling they belong. The fifth paper argues for similar kinds of social support and sense of belonging, but to the military rather than the family, to support return to battle. Originality/value Few studies to date have included military people’s spouses or intimate partners. These studies either include these contacts or pay attention to the social context when considering military people returning home or experiencing traumatic stress and injuries. Attention to the social context may protect social inclusion when military people return home, or support their military role. The potential contribution of working with that context has lessons for civilian mental health services in preserving social inclusion.

Vintage Wine in New Bottles

2016 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 423-435 ◽  
Author(s):  
David T. Takeuchi
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Psychology ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Cultural Sociology ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Immigration Studies ◽  
The Social

The metaphor vintage wine in new bottles imagines how ideas from immigration studies, social psychology, and cultural sociology add novel insights about how the social context and social relationships of immigrant lives are linked to well-being. This article describes a few patterns in research studies that have addressed whether immigrants have higher or lower rates of mental health problems than their U.S.-born counterparts. It discusses a few past approaches to explain the differences in mental health outcomes. The article concludes with select concepts and tools from other sociological fields that may invigorate research on immigrants and their health and mental health.

scholarly journals PROCESSO GRUPAL: REFLEXÕES DE UMA PRÁTICA COM JOVENS EM SAÚDE MENTAL

2003 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cláudia Márcia Vieira Gusmão
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Psychology ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Health It ◽  
The Social ◽  
De Se ◽  
Empiric Data ◽  
Methodological Aspects

Neste trabalho são apresentadas reflexões sobre uma prática realizada com jovens em Saúde Mental. Sintetizam uma parte da pesquisa realizada para Dissertação do Mestrado em Psicologia. Utilizei como referência teórica autores da Psicologia Social, que trabalham com uma concepção dialética de homem e de grupo, principalmente os estudos de Ignácio Martín-Baró e Silvia Lane. Estes autores postulam que o grupo é um processo permeado por contradições que refletem a sociedade onde seus participantes estão inseridos. Procurei também refletir sobre esta prática no contexto das transformações que vêm sendo realizadas com a Reforma Psiquiátrica. Com relação aos aspectos metodológicos, utilizei a pesquisa qualitativa e, como instrumento de coleta de dados, a observação participante. Os dados empíricos foram agrupados e analisados a luz das categorias teóricas assinaladas pelos autores citados. Os resultados da pesquisa sinalizaram para a importância de se refletir sobre as práticas sociais realizadas em distintos contextos sociais, buscando adequá-las à realidade da população, além da necessidade de espaços de interação social abertos ao diálogo e à construção de vínculos afetivos importantes para o fortalecimento da identidade dos jovens. No contexto da saúde mental, considero também importante abordar a interação com outros segmentos sociais, possibilitando a construção de uma prática interdisciplinar que permita a multiplicação de informações, trabalhando sobre os preconceitos, reduzindo-se assim a exclusão social.Group process: reflections on a practice with youngsters in mental healthAbstractIn this work reflections are presented about a practice that was done with youngsters in Mental Health. It summarizes part of a research that was done for a master dissertation in Psychology. I used, as a theoretical reference, authors from the Social Psychology area, who work with a dialectic concept of men and group, mainly the studies of Ignácio Martín-Baró and Silvia Lane. Those authors advocate that the group is a process that is filled with contradictions, which reflect the society where their members are inserted. I also intended to reflect about that practice in the context of the transformations that are being done under the Psychiatric Reform. Regarding the methodological aspects, I made use of the qualitative research and, as a tool for data collection, of the participative observation. The empiric data was grouped and analyzed under the light of the theoretical categories signaled by the cited authors. The research results pointed to the importance of reflecting about the social practices that are conducted at different social contexts, trying to adapt them to the population’s reality, besides the need of spaces of social interaction opened to the dialog and to the construction of affective connections, which are important for the strengthening of those youngsters identity. In the context of mental health, I also consider important to approach the interaction with other social segments, allowing the construction of an interdiscipline practice, which permit the multiplication of the information, working over the pre-concepts and therefore reducing the social exclusion.

Narrative as active inference

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nabil Bouizegarene ◽  
maxwell ramstead ◽  
Axel Constant ◽  
Karl Friston ◽  
Laurence Kirmayer
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Human Adaptation ◽  
Active Inference ◽  
Future Projection ◽  
Future Developments ◽  
The Social ◽  
Parsimonious Model ◽  
Living Organisms ◽  
Theory Research

The ubiquity and importance of narratives in human adaptation has been recognized by many scholars. Research has identified several functions of narratives that are conducive to individuals’ well-being and adaptation as well as to coordinated social practices and enculturation. In this paper, we characterize the social and cognitive functions of narratives in terms of the framework of active inference. Active inference depicts the fundamental tendency of living organisms to adapt by creating, updating, and maintaining inferences about their environment. We review the literature on the functions of narratives in identity, event segmentation, episodic memory, future projection, storytelling practices, and enculturation. We then re-cast these functions of narratives in terms of active inference, outlining a parsimonious model that can guide future developments in narrative theory, research, and clinical applications.

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