Journal article
Developing death literacy
Progress in Palliative Care, Vol.24(1), pp.31-35
2016
Abstract
Death literacy is defined as a set of knowledge and skills that make it possible to gain access to understand and act upon end-of-life and death care options. People, and communities, with high levels of death literacy have context-specific knowledge about the death system and the ability to put that knowledge into practice. Positioned within a public health framework, death literacy is considered an outcome of people's experiences of and learnings about, death and dying. Death literacy also appears to be a resource that individuals and communities can use for their own benefit strengthening their capacity for future caring. This purpose of this paper is to explore the concept of death literacy using the evidence from a 6-year research project. We do this by examining how it corresponds to, and differs from, existing concepts and practices such as death education, health literacy, and community development. Our aim is to introduce new thinking into public health approaches to palliative care, offer practice development pathways in this arena and propose that death literacy offers a useful conceptual framework for both describing and understanding the outcomes of a public health approach to palliative care.
Details
- Title
- Developing death literacy
- Authors
- K Noonan (Author) - Western Sydney UniversityD Horsfall (Author) - Western Sydney UniversityR Leonard (Author) - Western Sydney UniversityJohn P Rosenberg (Author) - Queensland University of Technology
- Publication details
- Progress in Palliative Care, Vol.24(1), pp.31-35
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Date published
- 2016
- DOI
- 10.1080/09699260.2015.1103498
- ISSN
- 0969-9260
- Organisation Unit
- School of Health - Nursing; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedicine - Legacy
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99451336402621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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