Affect and Multimodality in Medical Science Education: Exploring Health Literacy Practices to Humanize Communication
Abstract This talk examines how multimodal and affective resources shape health communication in medical education in Brazil, focusing on what happens when communication outpaces patients' health literacy. Data from the first multicenter, population-based survey of functional health literacy in Brazil (Dal Pizzol et al., 2025), based on 1,181 adults interviewed face to face across five...