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Culture plays a role in personal health decisions

Costa-Font, Joan ORCID: 0000-0001-7174-7919 (2025) Culture plays a role in personal health decisions. LSE Business Review (25 Feb 2025). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

Health decisions, such as how people seek treatment and which kinds of treatment they trust, are highly influenced by culture. In many societies, herbal remedies, spiritual healing and community-based care are still widely used, even when biomedical healthcare is available. Joan Costa-Font writes that it’s important to acknowledge the enduring popularity of these traditions and recommends cultural sensitivity in healthcare policies.

Item Type: Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview/
Additional Information: © 2025 The Author(s)
Divisions: Health Policy
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine
Date Deposited: 31 Mar 2025 23:11
Last Modified: 01 Apr 2025 03:15
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/127718

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