Reproductive health literacy: terminological understanding, plain language and gender perspective
Abstract
This paper, within the framework of the NEOTERMED project, analyses how patients, mainly women, perceive and understand complex biomedical terms related to Assisted Reproduction (AR). We begin with the premise that terminology plays an important role in the transmission of specialised knowledge and the difficulties of understanding generated by intratextual and intertextual terminological variations (Fernández-Silva, Freixa & Cabré, 2011; Tercedor & López, 2012; Estopà & Montané, 2020: 46). In accordance with the results of previous research (Santamaría, 2023) and based on the data obtained in a survey of patients, a terminological tool, infographics, has been designed to improve their health literacy, taking into account the guidelines of plain language (UNE, 2024) and the gender perspective. This study has enabled us to identify the terminological challenges encountered by patients, to discover the gender biases still present in medical discourse and to evaluate the role of infographics in improving terminological understanding.
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