Healthcare avoidance: A critical review

Holistic Nursing Practice

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 280-292

  Byrne, Sharon K ^a,b  

^a UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at Camden   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Avoidant behaviors; Delay; Health seeking behaviors; Healthcare avoidance

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DECISION MAKING; ETHNOLOGY; FEAR; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; MALE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REFUSAL TO PARTICIPATE; REVIEW; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STATISTICS; TREATMENT REFUSAL; UNITED STATES;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DECISION MAKING; FEAR; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; REFUSAL TO PARTICIPATE; SELF EFFICACY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TREATMENT REFUSAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 58149181857     PISSN: 08879311     EISSN: 15505138     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.HNP.0000334921.31433.c6     Document Type: Article

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