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Health Promotion and Prevention Programmes in Practice

Health Promotion and Prevention Programmes in Practice How Patients' Health Practices Are Rationalised, Reconceptualised and Reorganised - VerKörperungen/MatteRealities - Perspektiven Empirischer Wissenschaftsforschung

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Publisher's Synopsis

The shift to prevention and health promotion is an example of how policy makers aim to rationalise and organise both health systems and patients' health practices. By applying a perspective from empirical science & technology studies (STS), based on qualitative research methods, the chapters of this book present a view behind the scenes and zoom into the micropolitics of prevention and health promotion. They analyse how patients are framed as being (S1(Bat risk(S0(B, how preventative regimes shape medical practices, and what its practical consequences are in patients' everyday lives. This makes the insights of this book relevant for prevention and health promotion practitioners, public health policy-makers and researchers.

Book information

ISBN: 9783837613025
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Imprint: Transcript
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Language: English
Number of pages: 228
Weight: 332g
Height: 153mm
Width: 228mm
Spine width: 16mm