Engaging People with Diabetes - Language Matters
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Language is a powerful tool for shaping attitudes and behaviour.
Today, scientists and health care professionals’ communication with and about people with diabetes often includes non-inclusive, stigmatising and disempowering language. Using inclusive and empowering language has a huge potential to improve the health outcomes of people with diabetes and to increase their engagement in research.
Listen as postdocs within the field of diabetes and an expert discuss the challenges and solutions.
Postdoc representatives:
- Hannah Chatwin, PhD student, University of Southern Denmark
- Uffe Søholm, PhD student, University of Southern Denmark
Expert: Renza Scibilia - Manager at Diabetes Australia in Melbourne; health writer and diabetes advocate and activist, promoting a person-centred approach to healthcare & in the development of information and technologies
Host: Gretchen Repasky is Communications Director at the Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine
Publisher: Danish Diabetes Academy
Producer: Kontekst & Lyd
You can find additional information about the podcast at www.danishdiabetesacademy.dk/podcasts and about Danish Diabetes Academy and the Winter School at www.danishdiabetesacademy.dk.
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