The Key Role of Media Literacy in the Forming of Critical Health Literacy: The Case of Social Media in Turkey
This study emphasises critical health literacy and as a consequence, the importance of media literacy in establishing health consciousness. Health litreacy is examined with critical view by this descriptive study and emphasizes the strategic role of media literacy in the development of health literacy. Turkey ranks as the second most active country in social media penetration and the study treats media literacy in Turkey exclusively with regards to “social media” use in Turkey and explains the reasons behind this preference with statistics. Furthermore, this study discusses the development and the spreading of critical health literacy and includes suggestions toward the goal.
Accessing, understanding, and applying health communication messages: The challenge of health literacy.
The public today has greater access to health information than at any previous time in human history. Every day people are inundated even bombarded with an abundance of health information. Health care professionals provide advice pharmacists dispense printed instructions health educators distribute brochures television and radio news shows broadcast stones about peoples health and well-being newspapers offer coverage of the latest findings from medical research and the Internet delivers nearly unlimited information on any and every health topic. What does this assortment of health information have in common? It is all likely to be ineffective and potentially harmful if the receivers of the information do not possess a high enough level of health literacy to access the information "I understand what is being communicated" and appropriately apply it to their own lives. The need for high health literacy is particularly paramount as the responsibility for health decisions continues to shift from practitioners to consumers in the modern era of managed care (Root & Stableford 1999). (excerpt)
Continuity, Legitimacy, and Agricultural Development: Conclusions
This chapter aims at bringing together the principal conclusions of the volume, emphasising some particular aspects and questions. Policy continuity in relation to the late 1980s was rightly defined by the Aylwin government policymakers as an essential instrument for further agricultural growth. But in a democratic environment the Aylwin policies, in part precisely because of their strong element of continuity, could be implemented only if they were perceived as legitimate by the majority of the rural population, and by the poor in particular. This means that substantial improvements in agricultural income distribution, and in the quantity and quality of the social services provided to the rural poor, were unavoidable. In order to achieve legitimacy it was, and is, necessary to introduce changes. A lucid, creative combination of continuity and change was the only guarantee of success for the Aylwin policies, and for those of future democratic administrations. Continuity and legitimacy are the fundamental pillars for democratic agricultural development.