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Health Education and its Ideological Content

Elianne Riska

Research Institute for Social Security, Helsinki

The paper reviews the growing interest in preventive health care measures in advanced industrial societies - self care and health education being typical examples. It is argued that health education has an ideological and normative content which reflects the concern of vanous power groups in society.

Acta Sociologica, Vol. 25, No. 1 suppl, 41-46 (1982)
DOI: 10.1177/000169938202500106x
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