'My health is not a job': A qualitative exploration of personal health management and imperatives of the 'new public health'

BMC Public Health

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Macgregor, Jennifer Cd ^a   Wathen, C Nadine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Health attitudes; Health behaviour; Healthism; Responsibility; Work

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CANADA; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SATISFACTION; SELF CARE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ONTARIO; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF CARE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84904275161     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-726     Document Type: Article

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