Sociocultural variations in help-seeking behavior for everyday symptoms and chronic disorders

Health Policy

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 57-72

  Alberts, Jantina F ^a   Sanderman, Robbert ^b   Gerstenbluth, Izzy ^a   Van Den Heuvel, Wim J A ^b  

^a Medical and Public Health Service   (Netherlands Antilles)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Health services utilization; Lay attitudes; Need; Patient empowerment; Self care; Social class

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACKACHE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMOTIONAL STRESS; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTHESIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NETHERLANDS ANTILLES; RATING SCALE; VERTIGO;

ACUTE DISEASE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHRONIC DISEASE; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; NETHERLANDS ANTILLES; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); SELF CARE; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0031840169     PISSN: 01688510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-8510(98)00015-3     Document Type: Article

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