Constructing illness: How the public in eight Western nations respond to a clinical description of "schizophrenia"

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 929-938

  Olafsdottir, Sigrun ^a   Pescosolido, Bernice A ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross national research; Culture; Help seeking; Mental illness; Public attitudes; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

MENTAL HEALTH; PUBLIC ATTITUDE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESEARCH;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BULGARIA; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CULTURAL FACTOR; CYPRUS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMAN; HUNGARY; ICELAND; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; PUBLIC OPINION; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL BELIEF; SOCIAL STATUS; SPAIN; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PREJUDICE; PUBLIC OPINION; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOCIOLOGY, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

BULGARIA; CYPRUS; GERMANY; HUNGARY; ICELAND; SPAIN; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80052268296     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.06.029     Document Type: Article

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