Sentence examples for illness actions from inspiring English sources

Despite the positive and enabling character found within the family system in Tanzania, the interdependence also had constraining consequences for people's illness actions.

Many of the informants had to adjust their illness actions to the needs of other relatives which Haiba's illness experience illustrates.

The topic guide was organised around three separate but overlapping sections: (1) symptoms/onset/impact including illness actions; (2) consulting the general practitioner (GP) and gaining a diagnosis/healthcare system and professionals and (3) postdiagnosis experiences.

These illness actions; using her diabetes to gain a seat on the bus, a better place in the queue or managing to make use of the exemptions, made Helen appear resourceful.

This tells us of the need to revise the role of the family in general and include alternative support possibilities in our understanding of the conditions for illness actions in particular.

Fatima's vulnerable internal health conditions combined with the extreme vulnerability of external conditions disrupted all illness actions and left Fatima with few choices which may have had severe consequences for her future.

This made illness action vulnerable to disruption and tactical in character.

(2) Improve knowledge of symptoms by introducing chest disease prototypes (Illness Action Model and Illness prototypes 29 30).

These forms of illness action highlighted the complex and unpredictable relationship between knowledge, beliefs and health seeking behaviours.

In the illness action model, other people are considered to have a role in recognising and interpreting bodily changes (Dingwall, 2001).

Also pupils were interviewed on school absenteeism due to illness, action taken, distance to the nearest health facility (time taken by walking) and cost of treatment.