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CARNEIRO, Vânia; SILVA, Isabel  e  JOLLUSKIN, Glória. Portrait of literacy in functional, communicational and critical health in emigrant women. Psic., Saúde & Doenças [online]. 2020, vol.21, n.1, pp.8-14. ISSN 1645-0086.  https://doi.org/10.15309/20psd210103.

The migratory movement is a phenomenon with a great impact on social transformations, posing a challenge to public health, as it impels an update in the formulation of policies and programs that safeguard access to health care, with particular attention to reducing inequalities and the elimination of barriers to their access. This study aims to describe the levels of Health Literacy in Portuguese migrant women. A convenience sample of 99 women aged between 18 and 75 years (M= 34.55; SD = 10.11) and mostly with secondary education (43.4%) was studied and Superior (36.3%). Participants answered a sociodemographic and clinical questionnaire and the Health Literacy Scale. Of the sample, 31.1% usually refer to medical / nursing consultations, 21.2% suffer from some disease and 10.1% were hospitalized in the hospital. last year. As for the general perception of health 50.5% of women perceive their health as being "good". Overall levels of health literacy were found to be average (M = 65.2; SD = 11.1). At the level of Communicational Literacy, the participants reveal to have good skills (M = 81.1%; SD = 18.0), but at the Functional Literacy level these are medium (M = 64.2; SD = 12.1) and Critical Literacy are clearly weak (M = 34.0; SD = 7.0). It is therefore important to develop comprehensive health literacy strategies to reduce health inequalities.

Palavras-chave : Health literacy; Women; Emigrants.

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