Behavior Change or Empowerment: On the Ethics of Health-Promotion Goals

Health Care Analysis

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 24-46

  Tengland, Per Anders ^a  

^a MALMÖ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Autonomy; Behavior change; Empowerment; Goals; Health promotion ethics; Public health ethics; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR CHANGE; EMPOWERMENT; ETHICS; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; MODEL; MORALITY; PERCEPTION; THINKING; BEHAVIOR; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; MOTIVATION; PROCEDURES; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITY OF LIFE;

GOALS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 84958236966     PISSN: 10653058     EISSN: 15733394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10728-013-0265-0     Document Type: Article

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