Health demand in primary care context: What do people think about physicians?
This research aims to explore the link between health demand and representation of medical function in a sample of 86 individuals (aged between 18 and 74) from Italy. A questionnaire has been administered for the analysis of cultural models (Carli & Paniccia 1999) in terms of affective symbolisation...
| Publicado en: | Psychology, Health & Medicine Vol. 18; no. 2; pp. 145 - 155 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Mar2013
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