Health Literacy from a Health Ethnology Perspective: An Analysis of Everyday Health Practices of Migrant Youth and Families

This book presents a health ethnology of health literacy among vulnerable groups. In addition to a comprehensive state of research and the development of a theory-oriented health literacy research, three case studies on vulnerable minorities from Germany and Switzerland are presented. The social dimension of health and health literacy, which can hardly be conceptualized in the individualistic competence-theoretical approaches, is particularly clearly highlighted.

This book is a translation of the original German 1^st edition Health Literacy aus gesundheitsethnologischer Perspektive by Uwe H. Bittlingmayer, published by Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature in 2020. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventionaltranslation. Springer Nature works continuously to further the development of tools for the production of books and on the related technologies to support the authors.

Dr. Uwe H. Bittlingmayer is Professor of Sociology at the Freiburg University of Education.

Zeynep Islertas, Elias Sahrai and Stefanie Harsch are research associates in the BMBF research network Health Literacy in Childhood and Adolescence at the Institute of Sociology at the Freiburg University of Education.

Isabella Bertschi is an assistant professor at the Department of Clinical Psychology with a focus on children/adolescents and couples/families at the Psychological Institute of the University of Zurich.

Dr. Diana Sahrai is head of the professorship for Social Learning under Difficult Conditions at the Institute for Special Education and Psychology at the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, Muttenz.