Abstract

Antimicrobial resistance is one of the current biggest public health concerns, especially urgent regarding antibiotic consumption caused by urinary tract infections, which affect women the most. Improving diagnosis and prescription help in reducing resistance development. For this reason, data literacy is suggested to enhance individuals' ability to recognize and describe symptoms and promote bottom-up data and information collection. A participatory approach to self-tracking practices, based on data visualization and physicalization, emerged in this direction to facilitate women in defining new methods of self-care valuation, promoting female agency, autonomy and knowledge creation. Based on the findings from the interdisciplinary literature review and expert interviews, the project defines a workshop framework, including different stakeholders who will be introduced to the use of personal data to improve literacy skills, track information and define how to support symptom explanation during the diagnosis.

Keywords

Data Literacy, Participatory Approach, Women Empowerment, AMR & UTIs

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Improving the patient-doctor relationship to fight antimicrobial resistance through data literacy promoted by a women-centred participatory practice

Antimicrobial resistance is one of the current biggest public health concerns, especially urgent regarding antibiotic consumption caused by urinary tract infections, which affect women the most. Improving diagnosis and prescription help in reducing resistance development. For this reason, data literacy is suggested to enhance individuals' ability to recognize and describe symptoms and promote bottom-up data and information collection. A participatory approach to self-tracking practices, based on data visualization and physicalization, emerged in this direction to facilitate women in defining new methods of self-care valuation, promoting female agency, autonomy and knowledge creation. Based on the findings from the interdisciplinary literature review and expert interviews, the project defines a workshop framework, including different stakeholders who will be introduced to the use of personal data to improve literacy skills, track information and define how to support symptom explanation during the diagnosis.

 

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