Risk, significance and biomedicalisation of a new population: Older women's experience of osteoporosis screening

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 808-815

  Salter, Charlotte Ingrid ^a   Howe, Amanda ^a   McDaid, Lisa ^a   Blacklock, Jeanette ^a   Lenaghan, Elizabeth ^a   Shepstone, Lee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biomedicalisation; Bone health; Illness experience; Older women; Osteoporosis; Predictive medicine; Risk; Screening; UK

Indexed keywords

BONE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; ELDERLY POPULATION; HEALTH RISK; HEALTH STATUS; WOMENS HEALTH;

AGING; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; BONE DENSITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; MASS SCREENING; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; OSTEOPOROSIS; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; POPULATION RISK; PREDICTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MASS SCREENING; OSTEOPOROSIS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOLOGY, MEDICAL;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 80052273663     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.06.030     Document Type: Article

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