Prostate cancer support groups, health literacy and consumerism: Are community-based volunteers re-defining older men's health?

Health

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 555-570

  Oliffe, John L ^a   Bottorff, Joan L ^a   McKenzie, Michael M ^a   Hislop, T Gregory ^a   Gerbrandt, Julieta S ^a   Oglov, Valerie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

health consumerism; masculinity; men's health literacy; prostate cancer support groups

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CANADA; COMMUNITY CARE; CONSUMER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HEALTH LITERACY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEN'S HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROSTATE TUMOR; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF HELP; STATISTICS; VOLUNTARY WORKER;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRITISH COLUMBIA; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH LITERACY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MEN'S HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; SELF-HELP GROUPS; VOLUNTARY WORKERS;

EID: 80655126932     PISSN: 13634593     EISSN: 14617196     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363459310364156     Document Type: Article

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