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| Title |
‘My health is not a job’: a qualitative exploration of personal health management and imperatives of the ‘new public health’
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| Published in |
BMC Public Health, July 2014
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2458-14-726 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Jennifer CD MacGregor, C Nadine Wathen |
| Abstract |
There is an increasing push in Western healthcare for people to 'manage' their health, a key aspect of what has been called the 'new public health'. It has been argued that this 'personal health management' - informal work done to monitor, inform, or influence one's health - may be a burden, with potential to contribute to poor health outcomes. However, there is little research actually examining perceptions of personal health management and the 'burden' of these activities, particularly for generally healthy individuals. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 5 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 2 | 40% |
| Unknown | 3 | 60% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 40% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 40% |
| Scientists | 1 | 20% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 120 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 2 | 2% |
| Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| New Zealand | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 114 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 23 | 19% |
| Student > Master | 17 | 14% |
| Student > Bachelor | 17 | 14% |
| Researcher | 14 | 12% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 7 | 6% |
| Other | 23 | 19% |
| Unknown | 19 | 16% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences | 22 | 18% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 18 | 15% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 15 | 13% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 7 | 6% |
| Computer Science | 7 | 6% |
| Other | 21 | 18% |
| Unknown | 30 | 25% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 18 September 2014.
All research outputs
#12,608,638
of 22,758,963 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#8,582
of 14,833 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#100,471
of 226,891 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#156
of 287 outputs
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