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Health literacy in practice requires the development of techniques
that ensure that the patient can better access information,
understand its content, know how to use this information, and make
better health decisions. If the patient makes better health
decisions, there are immediate reflexes in health outcomes. The aim
is to develop an approach based on the commitment and creation of
an atmosphere of trust that reduces uncertainty, anxiety, and
embarrassment based on a process of assertive, clear, and positive
communication (ACP model). The Handbook of Research on
Assertiveness, Clarity, and Positivity in Health Literacy brings
the consolidation of knowledge, strategies, and techniques to
improve health literacy. This book discusses the importance of
making sound health decisions: decisions that can save lives,
prevent premature deaths, avoid hospitalizations and abusive
resources to medical emergencies, and improve overall health
outcomes for the individual, family, community, and society.
Covering topics such as dietary guidance, health behavior change
models, and medication reconciliation, this resource has
theoretical and practical aspects essential to health information
libraries, hospitals, clinics, health centers, health schools,
patient associations, health professionals, medical students,
researchers, professors, and academicians.
As neoliberal philosophies and economic models spread across the
globe, faith-based non-governmental ("third-sector") organizations
have proliferated. They increasingly fill the gaps born of state
neglect by designing and delivering social services and development
programming. This collection shines a much-needed critical light
onto these organizations by exploring the varied ways that
faith-based organizations attempt to mend the fissures and mitigate
the effects of neoliberal capitalism and development practices on
the poor and powerless. The essays-grounded in empirical case
studies-cover such topics as the meaning of "faith-based"
development, evaluations of faith-based versus secular approaches,
the influence of faith-orientation on program formulation and
delivery, and examinations of faith-based organizations' impacts on
structural inequality and poverty alleviation. Bridging the Gaps
demonstrates the vital importance of ethnography for understanding
the particular role of faith-based agencies in Latin America,
revealing both the promise and the limitations of this "new" mode
of development.
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