Paper: Implications of health as ‘the ability to adapt and self-manage’ for public health policy: a qualitative study

Results 

Key themes emerging 

Overall, participants supported the new concept of health. Four key patterns emerged regarding implications for public health: (i) health as an individual asset, (ii) health as a healthy lifestyle, (iii) health as focus of the healthcare system and (iv) health in the context of social support. p.413.

individual

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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES

humanistic ---------------------------------------  mechanistic

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

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group

(i) health as an individual asset	(ii) health as a healthy lifestyle
(iv) health in the context of social support	(iii) health as focus of the healthcare system

Jambroes, M., Nederland, T., Kaljouw, M., Van Vliet, K., Essink-Bot, M., &. Ruwaard, D. (2016). Implications of health as ‘the ability to adapt and self-manage’ for public health policy: A qualitative study. The European Journal of Public Health, 26(3), 412-416. doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckv206