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This book explores health literacy from a health ethnology perspective, focusing on everyday health practices among migrant youth and families. It challenges the traditional view of health literacy as an individual competency, proposing instead that it is a social practice deeply embedded in everyday interactions. The authors analyze health literacy within ethnic minority communities, emphasizing the role of family health literacy in addressing health inequities. The work critiques current empirical health literacy research, advocating for a more nuanced understanding of health literacy as influenced by social and contextual factors. Aimed at researchers and practitioners in public health, sociology, and education, the book provides a comprehensive theoretical framework for understanding health literacy in diverse populations.

Sociology of health --- Hygiene. Public health. Protection --- Social medicine --- Human medicine --- volksgezondheid --- sociologie --- geneeskunde --- gezondheidszorg --- Health literacy. --- Immigrant youth. --- Health literacy --- Immigrant youth

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Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Health literacy addresses a range of social dimensions of health, including knowledge, navigation and communication, as well as individual and organizational skills for accessing, understanding, evaluating and using information. Particularly over the past decade, health literacy has globally become a major public health concern as an asset for promoting health, wellbeing and sustainable development.

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