Taking responsibility or averting risk? A socio-cultural approach to risk and trust in private health insurance decisions

Health, Risk and Society

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 399-411

  Natalier, Kristin ^a   Willis, Karen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Decision making; Health care consumers; Private health insurance; Public health; Risk; Trust

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CULTURAL FACTOR; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PUBLIC HEALTH INSURANCE; RESPONSIBILITY; RISK MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL WELFARE; TRUST; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 51649108900     PISSN: 13698575     EISSN: 14698331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13698570802167413     Document Type: Article

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