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Culture of Ailment in Russian Society: Value Determinants and Behavioral Practices

Year: 2017
Type: article
Abstract: Criteria of health culture, as a culture of ailment, are the attitudes toward health as value and behavioral practices that reflect the real attitude of individual, social group and society towards health. In Russia, there is a discrepancy between value attitude to health and real behavioral practices at the level of society. It can be explained from the standpoint of transformation nature of Russian society development and the rapid dynamics of reality. The reality at the level of mass consciousness and perception, does not change as rapidly, remains in ideal representations and meanings, values and orientations that are not always exist in social practice, as empirical and statistical data show.
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2724662002
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