An exploration of white, Asian and Afro‐Caribbean peoples’ concepts of health and illness causation
- 1 January 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in New Community
- Vol. 18 (2) , 281-292
- https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183x.1992.9976300
Abstract
This article is based on secondary analysis of the Health and Lifestyle Survey. Matched controls from the white respondents were selected for the 129 Asians and 94 Afro‐Caribbeans. The analysis concentrates on concepts of health and illness; lay concepts of illness causation; aetiological notions in relation to specific disease categories; and a look at smoking behaviour. Because of the quality of the ethnicity variable on the Health and Lifestyle Survey we regard this as an exploratory study, generating hypotheses which can be investigated through more carefully designed studiesKeywords
This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
- Sinking heart: A Punjabi communication of distressSocial Science & Medicine, 1989
- Transcultural MedicinePublished by Springer Nature ,1989
- Health education for ethnic minorities — current provision and future directionsHealth Education Journal, 1988
- Alcohol and cigarette consumption among white and Asian general practice patientsHealth Education Journal, 1988
- Don't know responses in surveys: Analyses and interpretational consequencesJournal of Business Research, 1988
- Women's smoking and family healthSocial Science & Medicine, 1987
- The inter-relationship of folk, traditional and western medicine within an Asian community in BritainSocial Science & Medicine, 1986
- Health, health risks and inequalities: an exploratory study of women's perceptionsSociology of Health & Illness, 1985
- Ethnic differences in respiratory diseasePublished by Oxford University Press (OUP) ,1981