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16943389

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-11-17
pubmed:abstractText
A social-contextual approach to cancer prevention among participants associated with the working class may result in behavior-change messages that are more relevant to them and contribute to a reduction in health disparities among classes. This article reports findings from a qualitative study of adults in working-class occupations and/or living in predominantly working-class neighborhoods that was designed to explore the circumstances influencing perceptions of health promotion, disease prevention, and cancer-risk reduction. Participants made only a weak connection between cancer prevention and general health-promotion behaviors. Results suggest that the complexity of communicating cancer-prevention messages with this audience may be compounded by their unfamiliarity with cancer prevention and their lack of recognition that certain behaviors may reduce cancer risk. Therefore, developing messages that consider the social context of participants' lives and link cancer prevention with health promotion, while maintaining cancer prevention as a distinct subcategory, may prove to be an effective education strategy.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
1090-1981
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
35
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
777-90
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
Perceptions of health promotion and cancer prevention among adults in working-class occupations and neighborhoods.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. roberta_goldman@mhri.org
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article