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7479540

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
1995-12-15
pubmed:abstractText
Assessment and intervention in public health nursing are intricately linked to health promotion. Health promotional strategies in turn focus attention on life-style modifications. A broad base of research warns of the dangers of the "ideology of choice" that currently accompany such lifestyle-change attempts. The "ideology of choice" is inherent in pervasive views that individuals are "responsible for" and "choose" their disease. The rhetoric of individual responsibility pervades the discourse around both health promotion and health care reform. Without continual awareness of both the complex and multifaceted nature of such life-style "choices," and the balancing of a compassionate stance toward human frailty, health promotion attempts easily degenerate into a victim-blaming stance. Public health nurses need to be particularly aware of these dangers during this period when cost constraints are generating more pervasive "ideology of choice" rhetoric, targeting those with the scarcest resources and the most profound needs.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0737-1209
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
12
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
319-23
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1995
pubmed:articleTitle
Health promotion and the "ideology of choice".
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Community Health Care Systems, University of Washington School of Nursing, Seattle 98125, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review