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Working (IT) out together: engaging the community in E-health developments for obesity management

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posted on 2023-06-07, 15:37 authored by Flis Henwood, Leslie Carlin, Elizabeth S Guy, Audrey M Marshall, Helen Smith
Public health policy in Western countries increasingly emphasises citizens' personal responsibility for their own health. Strategies to encourage people to lessen their reliance on traditional forms of health care often involve new technologies that are intended to facilitate better access to health information and enable opportunities for self-care. 'Community-based' health care service delivery models have emerged hand-in-hand with discourses of 'patient-centred care', 'shared decision making', 'consumer health information' and patient 'autonomy' and 'empowerment'. In this book, contributors unpack these discourses and discuss their implications for relationships between patients and their health care providers, including the increasingly contested boundaries of medical 'expertize'. A distinctive contribution of this book is to bring together recent discussions about health 'consumerism' and self-care with developments in the sociology of work to make visible the restructuring of health-related labour, particularly emerging forms of health 'work' that are increasingly expected of private citizens.

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Publication status

  • Published

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Page range

194-210

Pages

267.0

Book title

Configuring health consumers: health work and the imperative of personal responsibility

Place of publication

Basingstoke, UK

ISBN

9780230251960

Series

Health Technology and Society Series

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  • Primary Care and Public Health Publications

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  • No

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Editors

Nadine Wathen, Roma Harris, Sally Wyatt

Legacy Posted Date

2010-11-22

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