The recovery approach has been steadily gain­ ing prominence as a guiding principle for mental health services (Department of Health 2001), with rehabilitation services in particular in the process of redefining themselves according to a recovery ethos (Shepherd 2008). This has entailed a funda­ mental shift in values for mental health services, from a predominant clinical recovery ethos (i.e. ...

Discussions of patient-centred care and patient autonomy in bioethics have tended to focus on the decision-making context and the process of obtaining informed consent, leaving open the question of how patients ought to be counselled in the daily maintenance of their health and management of chronic disease. Patient activation is an increasingly prominent counselling approach and measurement to...

  Background: Adolescence is a sensitive period of acquiring normal and abnormal habits for all of life. The study investigates determinants of responsibility for health, spiritual health and interpersonal relations and predictive factors based on the theory of planned behavior in high school girl students in Tabriz.   Methods : In this Cross-sectional study, 340 students were selected thorough...

To minimize starter packs, the Government, through Regulation of Minister Communication and Information Number 12 2016 jo. Informatics 14 2017 concerning Registration Telecommunications Service Customers requires consumers to send personal data operator as a National Identity Family Card or biological mother's name. However, this condition needs be addressed appropriately, bearing in mind that ...

background and aims: the most important risk factors threatening health of young people include improper diet, inactivity, smoking, intentional and accidental damages, drugs, aids/hiv and psychiatric disorders. considering increased risky behaviors among teens during 2 last decades, it was decided to evaluate the effects of education and consultation roles in relation to health risks on perform...

User intervention against incivility is a significant element of democratic norm enforcement on social media, and feeling personally responsible for acting vital prerequisite intervention. However, our insight into how users construe their sense personal responsibility expectations other remains limited. By theoretically foregrounding user perspective, this study investigates the boundaries nua...

This article focuses on Danish patients' experience of autonomy and its interplay with dignity and integrity in their meeting with health professionals. The aim is to chart the meanings and implications of autonomy for persons whose illness places them in a vulnerable life situation. The interplay between autonomy and personal dignity in the meeting with health care staff are central concepts i...

A belief that the government does (and should) have broad authority to protect and improve health, coupled with an understanding that collective action is often necessary to address public health challenges effectively, is central to the public health mindset. But many are questioning whether this vision of a strong government role is applicable to non-communicable disease threats and the socia...