How do health behaviour interventions take account of social context? A literature trend and co-citation analysis.

ABSTRACT: In recent years, health behaviour interventions have received a great deal of attention in both research and policy as a means of encouraging people to lead healthier lives. The emphasis of such interventions has varied over time, in terms of level of intervention (e.g. individual vs community) and drawing on different disciplinary perspectives. Recently, a number of critiques have focused on how health behaviour interventions sometimes sideline issues of social context, framing health as a matter of individual choice and, by implication, a personal responsibility. Part of this criticism is that health behaviour interventions often do not draw on alternative social science understandings of the structured and contextual aspects of behaviour and health. Yet to our knowledge, no study has at

SUBMITTER: Holman D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6377061 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature