Exploring health promotion practitioners’ experiences of moral distress in Canada and Australia

Global Health Promotion

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 32-45

  Sunderland, Naomi ^a   Harris, Paul ^a   Johnstone, Kylie ^a   Del Fabbro, Letitia ^a   Kendall, Elizabeth ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Canada; health promotion; health promotion continuum; moral distress

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUSTRALIA; BURNOUT; CANADA; CULTURAL COMPETENCE; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHICS; ETIOLOGY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; JOB SATISFACTION; LIFESTYLE; MANPOWER; MENTAL STRESS; MORALITY; POLITICS; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL CONTROL; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; STANDARDS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; AUSTRALIA; BURNOUT, PROFESSIONAL; CANADA; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURAL COMPETENCY; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; JOB SATISFACTION; LIFE STYLE; MORALS; POLITICS; PROFESSIONAL AUTONOMY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL CONTROL, FORMAL; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84939243467     PISSN: 17579759     EISSN: 17579767     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1757975914532505     Document Type: Article

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