Applying social theory to understand health-related behaviours
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Applying social theory to understand health-related behaviours.
Health-related behaviours are a concern for contemporary health policy and practice given their association with a range of illness outcomes. Many of the policies and interventions aimed at changing health-related behaviours assume that people are more or less free to choose their behaviour and how they experience health. Within sociology and anthropology, these behaviours are viewed not as act...
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عنوان ژورنال: Medical Humanities
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1468-215X,1473-4265
DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2015-010688