Health professionals: A source of variance in health outcomes
- 1 January 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Psychology & Health
- Vol. 5 (1) , 47-58
- https://doi.org/10.1080/08870449008400409
Abstract
The behaviour of health professionals is rarely considered systematically by psychologists. This paper makes the following argument: first, that the behaviour of health professionals is influenced by other factors as well as medical knowledge; second, that various psychological models of human behaviour previously used only in considering the behaviour of patients may also be used to explain, predict and change the behaviour of health professionals; third, to implement effective care the behaviour of health professionals needs to be considered alongside that of patients.Keywords
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