New logics, rationalities and contexts in quaternary prevention

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Published: May 6, 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17060/ijodaep.2018.n1.v4.1275
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health practices quaternary prevention

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Júlia Maria Guilherme Ribeiro Antunes
Médica e Médica Dentista Unidade de Saude Egas Moniz Assistente, Portugal

Abstract

The University students are usually well educated , healthy , is a relatively homogeneous socioeconomic and relatively privileged group culture and “ status “ , being undoubtedly a potential future leadership that can influence with some ease other social groups at different times of the cycle life, taking on the role of change agents . They are also , will start, more motivated to knowledge about behaviors and healthy lifestyles . Show that attitudes towards issues of common health ? Which actors, the itineraries of health and illness that question? Laymen, doctors, pharmacists, neighbors, friends, family? Or just wait and see?502 college students from Health Sciences were surveyed by questionnaire. It is an exploratory , descriptive and cross-sectional study which presents some results in this article , that it highlights the correlation of their health practices with the concept quaternary prevention, in which most of the time only involve the technique of wait and see. This is opposed to those that shaped the medicalization of our society in a very recent past . We may think of this social group as a motivator for profound changes in the practices of health / disease for next years , applying day by day, the concept and philosophy of quaternary prevention? 

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Ribeiro Antunes, J. M. G. (2018). New logics, rationalities and contexts in quaternary prevention. International Journal of Developmental and Educational Psychology. Revista INFAD De Psicología., 4(1), 99–106. https://doi.org/10.17060/ijodaep.2018.n1.v4.1275
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Vol. 4 No. 1 (2018): PSYCHOLOGY, AGE AND CURRENT CHANGES
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