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A review of lay health beliefs research: insights for nursing practice in health promotion
Author(s) -
DINES ALISON
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
journal of clinical nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.94
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1365-2702
pISSN - 0962-1067
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2702.1994.tb00409.x
Subject(s) - health promotion , emotive , nursing , sociology of health and illness , public health , occupational health nursing , health belief model , health education , psychology , health policy , medicine , health care , sociology , political science , anthropology , law
Summary• Recent sociological research in the field of lay health and illness beliefs is reviewed and discussed in the light of nursing practice in health promotion. • How the findings might deepen nurses' understanding of difficulties in adhering to desired health behaviours is outlined. • The distinctions between ‘public’ and ‘private’ accounts of health, the ‘taken‐for‐grantedness’ of health, the emotive nature of health and the difficulty of accessing ‘unpolluted’ lay views of health is considered. The implications for nurses working in health promotion are discussed. • There is a need for further research into the relationship between health beliefs and behaviour, the health beliefs of various groups within society and a need to examine how health beliefs arise and change.