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Public Libraries as Supportive Environments for Children’s Development of Critical Health Literacy
Critical health literacy enables individuals to use cognitive and social resources for informed action on the wider determinants of health. Promoting critical health literacy early in the life-course may contribute to improved health outcomes in the long term, but children’s opportunities to develop...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9564910/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36231198 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191911896 |
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author | Jenkins, Catherine L. Sykes, Susie Wills, Jane |
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description | Critical health literacy enables individuals to use cognitive and social resources for informed action on the wider determinants of health. Promoting critical health literacy early in the life-course may contribute to improved health outcomes in the long term, but children’s opportunities to develop critical health literacy are limited and tend to be school-based. This study applies a settings-based approach to analyse the potential of public libraries in England to be supportive environments for children’s development of critical health literacy. The study adopted institutional ethnography as a framework to explore the public library as an everyday setting for children. A children’s advisory group informed the study design. Thirteen children and 19 public library staff and community stakeholders were interviewed. The study results indicated that the public library was not seen by children, staff, or community stakeholders as a setting for health. Its policies and structure purport to develop health literacy, but the political nature of critical health literacy was seen as outside its remit. A supersetting approach in which children’s everyday settings work together is proposed and a conceptual model of the public library role is presented. |
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spelling | pubmed-95649102022-10-15 Public Libraries as Supportive Environments for Children’s Development of Critical Health Literacy Jenkins, Catherine L. Sykes, Susie Wills, Jane Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Critical health literacy enables individuals to use cognitive and social resources for informed action on the wider determinants of health. Promoting critical health literacy early in the life-course may contribute to improved health outcomes in the long term, but children’s opportunities to develop critical health literacy are limited and tend to be school-based. This study applies a settings-based approach to analyse the potential of public libraries in England to be supportive environments for children’s development of critical health literacy. The study adopted institutional ethnography as a framework to explore the public library as an everyday setting for children. A children’s advisory group informed the study design. Thirteen children and 19 public library staff and community stakeholders were interviewed. The study results indicated that the public library was not seen by children, staff, or community stakeholders as a setting for health. Its policies and structure purport to develop health literacy, but the political nature of critical health literacy was seen as outside its remit. A supersetting approach in which children’s everyday settings work together is proposed and a conceptual model of the public library role is presented. MDPI 2022-09-20 /pmc/articles/PMC9564910/ /pubmed/36231198 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191911896 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Jenkins, Catherine L. Sykes, Susie Wills, Jane Public Libraries as Supportive Environments for Children’s Development of Critical Health Literacy |
title | Public Libraries as Supportive Environments for Children’s Development of Critical Health Literacy |
title_full | Public Libraries as Supportive Environments for Children’s Development of Critical Health Literacy |
title_fullStr | Public Libraries as Supportive Environments for Children’s Development of Critical Health Literacy |
title_full_unstemmed | Public Libraries as Supportive Environments for Children’s Development of Critical Health Literacy |
title_short | Public Libraries as Supportive Environments for Children’s Development of Critical Health Literacy |
title_sort | public libraries as supportive environments for children’s development of critical health literacy |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9564910/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36231198 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191911896 |
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