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Showing 1 to 20 of 58 for “"Health and Illness"”.
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Accounting for health and illness: A social psychological investigation
This thesis identifies and describes some of the main accounts for health and illness that are current in British culture, placing them within broader contexts of psychological, sociological, traditional, religious and moral discourses; within broader explanatory frameworks; and, by way of an …
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Somali Immigrant Perceptions of Mental Health and Illness: An Ethnonursing Study
… research study was to explore, discover, and understand the mental health meanings, beliefs, and practices from the perspective of immigrant Somalis living in the United States. Leininger's Culture Care Diversity and Universality Theory, ethnonursing method, and ethnonursing enablers were …
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Metatheoretical constructs : implications for health and illness definition preference and health related behaviors
… individuals subscribe to personal definitions of health and illness because they are committed to different philosophical and epistemological positions. Second, does an individual's personal definition of health and illness predict the frequency of health and illness related behaviors.Two studies …
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Negotiating the Boundaries of Mental Health and Illness: A Study of Recovery in Permanent Supportive Housing
<p>Current sociological understandings of the effect that mental health services on consumers' daily lives are still heavily informed by research conducted during the era of institutional treatment. This is problematic considering that changes to mental health care have shifted the locus of …
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The Impact of Mental Health, Physical Health, and Illness Perceptions on Physical Activity in a COPD Population
Purpose – This body of research exists to expand the knowledge base surrounding how mental health, physical health, and illness perceptions interact with physical activity levels in individuals with COPD. Methods – The first study looked at pulmonary rehabilitation participants and consisted of …
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“Fit for nursing?” A qualitative analysis of disabled registered general nurses’ and other health professionals’ views on health and illness in relation to nursing employment.
… must be reconciled with the need to meet the demands inherent in service provision. Using grounded theory, interviews captured the experience of physically disabled RGNs, who use the phrase ‘physically disabled’ to describe themselves. Their collective experience was then compared with …
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The meaning of health and the experience of coronary heart disease in Italian-speaking cardiac patients: implications for cardiac rehabilitation programs
The study of the lay meanings of health has shown that good health can have a variety of meanings and that thèse meanings can influence health behaviour. Health and illness are subjective expériences which are determined by the interrelations of individual, social and cultural factors. The …
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Cultural Influences in Representation, Management and Prevention of Illness
… cross-cultural differences in self-regulation of health and illness. People might represent illness threat, and the strategies they adopt to cope with an existing or potential illness threat differently. However, very limited attention has been given to this aspect in health psychology research. …
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An exploration of the cultural context and consequences of perceptions of illness and health-seeking behaviour of the Baloch
Human beliefs about health and illness structure the explanations for health and illness in a society and these explanations rationalise preventive or therapeutic strategies. The purpose of this research was to discover, identify and understand the perceptions of health, illness and health seeking …
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Cross-national analysis of the association between subjective social status and health.
Socioeconomic discrepancies and their associations with health have been a persistent issue in the sociology of health and illness across the globe. Throughout the extensive research effort, subjective social status (SSS) has emerged as a relevant tool for social science and health researchers to …
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Leukemia and bone marrow transplantation : personal meanings and perceptions of the illness experience
… center to describe the personal meanings and perceptions of the illness experience of individuals who had been diagnosed with leukemia, and undergone BMT, and to explore and describe how the individuals' explanatory model of health and illness differs from the professional biomedical model …
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Understanding the Patient Experience With Alternative Health Care: The Example of The Wholistic Health Center
… of this research is the patient experience at and use of services in a (w)holistic health care setting. Although generally acknowledged to be increasing, there is little documentation of the patient experience and patient understanding in a whole person care setting. This research examines and …
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Placing the lived experience(s) of TB in a refugee community in Auckland, New Zealand
… much a reflection of socio-economic inequality and the uneven distribution of power and resources as it is about biological processes. In this thesis I explore the lived experience of TB within the Somali refugee community in Auckland, New Zealand. While migrants and refugees are frequently …
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Children on the move : experiences of children living in a temporary relocation camp in Cape Town, South Africa.
… of forced removals, displacement, marginality and the prevalence of violence in Bluewaters Refugee Camp Site C and Symphony Way Temporary Relocation Area. Exploring pathways and patterns of identity, embodiment and experiences of health and illness, and the expressive, revealing quality of …
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Health Perceptions and Health Care Practices of Lakota Sioux Living Off the Reservation in Western South Dakota
<p>Health perceptions and care practices have important implications for nursing, given the role of the nurse in providing holistic, culturally congruent care. The fundamental emphasis of nursing on understanding and treating human responses to health and illness lends itself to a concern for …
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Preparing Mental Health Professionals for Work in Collaborative Care Settings
… has been a significant shift regarding how health and illness are conceptualized. In decades past, the biomedical model predominated. Factors other than biological were not seen as important with regard to the diagnosis and treatment of illness; mind and body were viewed as separate. Engel’s …
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The Rhetorical Making Of An Illness: Medical Refusal, Trope, And Improvisation In A Somali Women'S Health Center
… ethnography examines the ways that individuals and communities come to understand autism, specifically, and health and illness, more broadly, and how these understandings influence medical decision-making. This study, developed in partnership with a Somali women's health center, asks how Somali …
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Blind but Seeing: Post-clinical Medicine in Jose Saramago's Blindness
… of two other narratives focused on plagues and epidemics – Daniel Defoe’s <em>A Journal of the Plague Year</em> (1722) and Albert Camus’ <em>The Plague </em>(1947) – each written at different points in time during the development of clinical medicine as chronicled by Michel Foucault’s …
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Culture Care Education and Experiences of African American Students in Predominantly Euro American Associate Degree Nursing Programs
… was to discover the cultural care education and experiences of African American students in predominantly Euro American Associate Degree Nursing Programs. Leininger's Culture Care Diversity and Universality Theory was used as a framework to describe the worldview, beliefs, values, and …
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The Embodied Work of Professional Dancers: Understandings of Pain, Injury and Health
This qualitative study explores how the health and wellness of workers in a relatively low status physical occupation - - in this case professional dancers in Western Canada - - is understood, managed and negotiated within its specific occupational culture. These embodied workers are at risk of …
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