Laura Harzheim|Mariya Lorke|Christiane Woopen|Saskia Jünger
Health Literacy as Communicative Action—A Qualitative Study among Persons at Risk in the Context of Predictive and Preventive Medicine
University Hospital Cologne|University of Cologne|University Hospital Cologne|University of Cologne|University of Cologne|University Hospital Cologne|University Hospital Cologne|University of Cologne
predictive preventive medicine play increasingly important role public debates health providing cuttingedge technologies potential measure predict individual risks getting ill leads everexpanding definitional space healthy ill challenging individuals everyday life attitudes perceptions towards self process healthrelated decisionmaking condition risk individual health literacy interrelate leading question current contribution drawing empirical qualitative data collected means narrative interviews persons risk four clinical fields bottomup ethnographic health sciences perspective health literacy emphasis critical health literacy employed findings embedded within theoretical approaches dealing power relations communication healthcare encounters particularly habermas theory communicative action core outcome study concept overarching model health literacy context healthrelated risk prediction across indications based empirical insights gained interpretative analysis four clinical domains