van Heteren F, Raaphorst NJ, Bussemaker JM. Health promotion roles shaped by professional identity: an ethnographic study in the Netherlands.
Health Promot Int 2024;
39:daad195. [PMID:
38217454 PMCID:
PMC10787352 DOI:
10.1093/heapro/daad195]
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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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