'Give people work, and the blood pressure will sink': lay engagement with cardiovascular risk factors in North Karelia in the 1970s.
In high-income countries such as Finland, personal healthcare is organised around the management of lifestyle risks and minimisation of such risks forms a key part of public health policy. While the scientific development of the lifestyle risk model has been thoroughly studied, there has been less r...
| Publicado en: | Health, Risk & Society Vol. 18; no. 1/2; pp. 21 - 38 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
2016
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