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Ethical underpinnings for the development of health literacy in schools: ethical premises (‘why’), orientations (‘what’) and tone (‘how’)

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Public Health, March 2018
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Title
Ethical underpinnings for the development of health literacy in schools: ethical premises (‘why’), orientations (‘what’) and tone (‘how’)
Published in
BMC Public Health, March 2018
DOI 10.1186/s12889-018-5224-0
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Authors

Leena Paakkari, Shanti George

Abstract

Schools are seen as crucial environments to influence and develop the health literacy of new generations, but without sufficient reflection on the ethical underpinnings of intentions and interventions around health literacy. In contrast, we argue here that ethics are fundamental to all education. The article adopts a 'One world' approach that generalizes broadly across the so-called Global North and Global South. It also generalizes across various age groups among school pupils, advocating age appropriate application of the arguments advanced. Our analysis examines why health literacy should be promoted in schools and argues that the purpose should embrace the values of social justice and should not stop at individual and national cost benefit analysis. Discussion about the orientation of health literacy highlights meta-cognitive skills around critical thinking, self-awareness and citizenship rather than lists of practical skills. Finally, approaches to health literacy in classrooms are presented with an ethical tone that draws attention to the power relations responsible for health inequities and that does not assume that such power relations are the given framework for health literacy interventions and activities. These arguments are reinforced by urging that related debates address dynamic social realities such as international migration. We reiterate the need for ethical questions to be consciously and systematically addressed from early on, beginning with intentions to promote health literacy even before these intentions are translated into action, within the political space where education meets public health and health promotion. We underline again the context of fluidity and dynamism, as new challenges emerge within pedagogies and curricula, especially in response to changing populations in the society around.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 75 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Other 6 8%
Researcher 6 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 8%
Lecturer 5 7%
Student > Bachelor 5 7%
Other 20 27%
Unknown 27 36%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 13 17%
Medicine and Dentistry 9 12%
Social Sciences 8 11%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 4 5%
Psychology 4 5%
Other 9 12%
Unknown 28 37%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 02 July 2021.
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