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ARTICULATING GLOBAL PRESCRIPTIONS FOR HEALTH WITH LOCAL CONCEPTIONS OF WELL‐BEING AND RISK: THE CASE OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION
Author(s) -
Brangan Emer
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of international development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.533
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1099-1328
pISSN - 0954-1748
DOI - 10.1002/jid.2935
Subject(s) - physical activity , non communicable disease , sitting , low and middle income countries , physical health , qualitative research , medical prescription , well being , economic growth , political science , sociology , development economics , developing country , psychology , economics , social science , medicine , public health , law , nursing , pathology , physical medicine and rehabilitation , mental health , psychotherapist
If there is one thing that policy makers at the World Health Organisation and residents of the South African township of Langa are likely to agree on, it is that ‘just sitting’ is not good for you. The positions from which they approach this conclusion however differ profoundly. This research uses qualitative methods to investigate different conceptualisations of physical activity, health and well‐being, and the implications of these differences for policy on the prevention of non‐communicable diseases in low‐income and middle‐income countries, taking South Africa as a case study. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.