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Male callers to NHS Direct: the assertive carer, the new dad and the reluctant patient.
- Source :
- Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness & Medicine; Jul2004, Vol. 8 Issue 3, p311-328, 18p, 1 Chart, 1 Graph
- Publication Year :
- 2004
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Abstract
- It has been suggested in the light of mortality and morbidity rates, and men's reluctance to seek medical help and advice, that there is a crisis in men's health. Little is known about men's experiences of using health care services, despite an emergent UK men's health movement. NHS Direct, the new telephone advice line, was designed to be more accessible, convenient and responsive to the public's needs for health care. In-depth interviews with male callers to the service, aged between 29 and 59, reveal that they sought help in their roles as fathers, partners and on their own behalf. Having used it once, they anticipated doing so again. Their learning about health matters, from both the formal structure and the informal agenda of the telephone consultation, suggests the potential of men's use of this service for ‘normalizing’ help seeking by men, and thereby for longer-term improvements in men's health. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- MEN'S health
MEDICAL care
PUBLIC health
DISEASES in men
MEDICAL research
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13634593
- Volume :
- 8
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness & Medicine
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 13795076
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1363459304043468