Choice or change: Further evidence on ideas of illness and responsibility for health

Roisin Pill and Stott Nigel C.H.

Social Science & Medicine, 1985, vol. 20, issue 10, 981-991

Abstract: A study of 204 Welsh mothers using well validated research methods has demonstrated that better understanding of the antecedents to health behaviours contributes to a reorientation of stereotyped ideas about working class health beliefs and behaviour. Fatalism and an orientation to life-style choices for health are not necessarily contradictory concepts and this has important implications for those who are involved in education for health. The development of a Salience of Lifestyle Index (SLI) is described and studied in relation to concepts of blame for illness, education, house tenure, religious commitment, employment, health behaviours and social background.

Date: 1985
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