Personal Health Responsibility: Blaming Victims or Empowering Nations?

Blaming tobacco's victims.

Personal responsibility in oral health: ethical considerations.

Personal responsibility is a powerful idea supported by many values central to West European thought. On the conceptual level personal responsibility is a complex notion. It is important to separate the concept of being responsible for a given state of affairs from the concept of holding people responsible by introducing measures that decrease their share of available resources. Introducing per...

The Negative Health Impacts of Globalization: Personal Health Responsibility and the Epidemic of Non-Communicable Diseases in Pacific Island Nations

Individuals in the developing world are quick to adopt patterns of behavior that mimic Western trends even when those trends have negative long term effects on health. In this study we relate survey results describing attitudes and perceptions toward individual health responsibility of people being treated for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) including diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular...

Empowering Proactive and Personal Health Care: No Option No Choice

The central objective of this paper is to explore the capacity of integrated technology to support an active and independent lifestyle within and beyond the home; it explores the potential of combined leading-edge textile, communications and computing technologies to help the ageing population enjoy an extended safe and healthy life wherever they chose to be.

Blaming for a better future: future orientation and associated intolerance of personal uncertainty lead to harsher reactions toward innocent victims.

People are often encouraged to focus on the future and strive for long-term goals. This noted, the authors argue that this future orientation is associated with intolerance of personal uncertainty, as people usually cannot be certain that their efforts will pay off. To be able to tolerate personal uncertainty, people adhere strongly to the belief in a just world, paradoxically resulting in hars...