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Distributed health literacy among people living with type 2 diabetes in Portuga...
Abreu, L; Nunes, JA; Taylor, P; Silva, SThis study embraces a patient‐centred and narrative‐oriented notion of health literacy, exploring how social networks and personal experiences constitute distributed health literacy (DHL) by mapping out health literacy mediators of each individual and how they enable self‐management skills and knowledge of health conditions. Semi‐structured interviews with 26 patients with type 2 diabetes were conducted in a Pr...
The Role of Distributed Health Literacy in Asthma Integrated Care: A Public Med...
Abreu, L; Nunes, JA; Taylor, P; Silva, SBackground: Improvements in asthma integrated care might be achieved through in-depth knowledge about how health literacy is dispersed through a group. This study intends to map out health literacy mediators (those who makes his/her literacy skills available to others for them to accomplish specific literacy purposes) and how they enable self-management skills in patients with asthma. Methods: Twenty interviews...