Family-focused preventive interventions with cancer cosurvivors: A call to action

M. Niemelä, C.A. Marshall, T. Kroll, M. Curran, S.S. Koerner, S. Räsänen and F. García

American Journal of Public Health, 2016, vol. 106, issue 8, 1381-1387

Abstract: Health promotion and preventive action in the context of public health interventions for highly prevalent, long-term conditions such as cancer are rarely geared toward the family as a whole. Yet familymembers, as cancer cosurvivors,must manage their own substantial stress and multiple caregiving responsibilities and often constitute a critical nexus between individual patients and clinicians. We drew on 2 examples of cancer cosurvivorship from 2 different health service contexts, the United States and Finland. A systemic approach in public health is needed to support family members who not only have to confront the meaning of long-term conditions such as cancer but also may have to manage concurrent social life challenges and stressors such as economic hardship. © 2013 American Public Health Association.

Keywords: caregiver; child of impaired parents; coping behavior; family; Finland; health promotion; human; mental stress; neoplasm; organization and management; psychology; social support; socioeconomics; United States, Adaptation, Psychological; Caregivers; Child of Impaired Parents; Family; Finland; Health Promotion; Humans; Neoplasms; Social Support; Socioeconomic Factors; Stress, Psychological; United States (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2016.303178

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