Renewing Perspectives on Men's Prostate Cancer Literacy and Engagement Along the Disease Continuum

From early detection to rehabilitation in community: Reading beyond the blog testimonies of survivors' quality of life and prostate cancer representation

“…As HL embodies a set of skills and abilities related to the identification of a credible source of health information, the coding and interpretation of information until its application in a safe way to self-care and self-manage needs and situations provoked by the natural trajectory of a disease [13]. Consequently, becoming health literate implies favourable conditions to live under better life conditions in consonance with changes and limitations provoked by degenerative disease like cancer, particularly PC [14].We analyzed the testimonies of PC patients and survivors posted to a public blog hosted by a French national prostate cancer patients' association; this was done as part of the fieldwork for a critical ethnographic study [15] (Zanchetta et al, PC representation among Francophile/Francophone men -unpublished manuscript) of the expressed values, behaviours, beliefs and language of Francophone and Francophile men experiencing PC, as well as its related representations.…”

Decision-Making Ability: A Missing Link Between Health Literacy, Contextual Factors, and Health

“…These antecedent factors not only explain DMA, but also the potential in achieving higher health literacy levels. According to literature, five dimensions of contextual factors can be distinguished confounding the effect form health literacy to health: personal, social and cultural, situational, environmental, and socioeconomic factors (Bailey et al, 2014;Berkman et al, 2011;Bröder et al, 2017;Neter & Brainin, 2019;Paasche-Orlow & Wolf, 2007;Rudd, 2017;Rüegg & Abel, 2019;Santos et al, 2011;de Wit et al, 2020). The complete and sparce model derived from the theoretical reflections is shown in Figure 1.…”