Attitudes and Social Conditions: Essays
In: Man: the journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Band 7, Heft 1, S. 177
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In: Man: the journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Band 7, Heft 1, S. 177
In: The public opinion quarterly: POQ, Band 33, Heft 3, S. 477-480
ISSN: 1537-5331
In: The economic history review, Band 31, Heft 2, S. 311
ISSN: 1468-0289
In: The economic history review, Band 34, Heft 3, S. 484
ISSN: 1468-0289
In: Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Band 7, Heft 3, S. 328
In: Teaching sociology: TS, Band 9, Heft 2, S. 211
ISSN: 1939-862X
In: The review of black political economy: analyzing policy prescriptions designed to reduce inequalities, Band 6, Heft 1, S. 59-71
ISSN: 1936-4814
In: The journal of psychology: interdisciplinary and applied, Band 70, Heft 1, S. 69-76
ISSN: 1940-1019
In: Ankara Üniversitesi SBF dergisi, Band 32, Heft 1, S. 1
ISSN: 1309-1034
In: The annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Band 437, Heft 1, S. 62-73
ISSN: 1552-3349
Many prominent health experts now assert that major improvements in the health of the American people must come from individual efforts to alter unhealthy per sonal habits and lifestyles rather than through medical services and technology. But it does not necessarily follow that a more ethical and feasible national health policy would focus primarily on exhorting Americans to mobilize their indi vidual willpower to change to more healthful personal habits. In determining the nature of such policy, three main points are essential. First, the "health and individual responsi bility" argument may overestimate the health benefits which will accrue from personal habit changes. Second, that argu ment tends to overlook or misconstrue the nature of societal constraints on individual will. It fails to specify the socio logical conditions under which millions of individuals can change their lives significantly and the role social condi tions play in maintaining unhealthy behavior and attitudes. Finally, the focus on individual decisionmaking deempha sizes the role of collective efforts, of public policy, in securing higher health standards. In essence, then, we suggest that a health policy that promotes curbing unhealthy habits and encourages healthy ones through societal action is more ethical and feasible than one focusing on "health as individual responsibility."
In: Eastern European economics: EEE, Band 4, Heft 2-3, S. 31-34
ISSN: 1557-9298
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ISSN: 1460-3578
In: International migration review: IMR, Band 6, Heft 1_suppl, S. 120-123
ISSN: 1747-7379, 0197-9183
In: Pakistan forum, Band 3, Heft 8/9, S. 31
In: Economics of planning: an international journal devoted to the study of comparative economics, planning and development, Band 5, Heft 1-2, S. 53-73
ISSN: 1573-0808