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Health promotion roles shaped by professional identity: an ethnographic study in the Netherlands
F van Heteren1,2, N J Raaphorst2, J M Bussemaker1,2
1Department of Public Health and Primary Care/Health Campus, Leiden University Medical Centre, Turfmarkt 99, 2511 DP The Hague, The Netherlands.
Abstract:
How frontline care professionals interpret and fulfill their health promotion roles is of great importance for the health of the vulnerable clients they work with. While the literature on health promotion is limited to describing the roles of healthcare professionals, this study examines the health promotion roles held by various frontline professionals when working with clients with combined psychosocial problems and how this is associated with professional identity. Based on ethnographic data from Dutch frontline professionals in social welfare, general healthcare and mental healthcare, this article shows how various frontline professionals promote health by reframing and customizing health problems and that this is associated with how they identify as pragmatic or holistic professionals.
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