Hosseini Nodeh Zahra, Hosseini Mohammadali, Fallahi Khoshknab Masoud, Shirozhan Shima, Khankeh Hamid Reza
Department of Nursing, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Health in Emergency and Disaster Research Center, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
J Educ Health Promot. 2024 Jul 5;13:167. doi: 10.4103/jehp.jehp_565_23. eCollection 2024.
Individual health responsibility plays an important role in maintaining and improving people's health. There are controversial opinions related to this concept. This study aimed to investigate controversial opinions related to individual health responsibility and familiarize researchers and policy makers with the available evidence and gap of knowledge in the recent years.
This paper is a scoping review. The five-step approach of Arksey and O'Malley was used to review the relevant literature from the beginning of 2017 to the end of 2022. The search was done in the PubMed, Embase, Scopus, web of sciences, Cochrane databases, and Google Scholar search engine using the English keywords "health responsibility" AND "individual" OR "personal".
All articles and theses related to individual health responsibility, which were in English and had access to their full text, were included in the study. After a 2-stage screening for 1,412 articles and theses, 32 were included in the study. The findings indicated that most of the studies were conducted in developed European continent. The published articles included a wide range of quantitative, qualitative, and mixed research, and acute and chronic diseases have been considered in this field.
Individual health responsibility is a multidimensional concept that is influenced by individual, social, and cultural factors, and emphasizing it can have both positive and negative effects on people's health. To the concept be effective in health promotion, it is important to pay attention to individual and social context, health status, and community and health policy makers views about individual health responsibility.
个人健康责任在维护和改善人们的健康方面发挥着重要作用。关于这一概念存在争议性观点。本研究旨在调查与个人健康责任相关的争议性观点，并使研究人员和政策制定者熟悉近年来现有的证据和知识差距。
本文是一项范围综述。采用阿克西和奥马利的五步方法对2017年初至2022年底的相关文献进行综述。使用英文关键词“健康责任”以及“个人”或“个体”在PubMed、Embase、Scopus、科学网、Cochrane数据库和谷歌学术搜索引擎中进行检索。
所有与个人健康责任相关、英文撰写且可获取全文的文章和论文均纳入本研究。经过对1412篇文章和论文的两阶段筛选，32篇被纳入研究。研究结果表明，大多数研究在欧洲发达地区进行。已发表的文章包括广泛的定量、定性和混合研究，并且该领域已考虑到急性和慢性疾病。
个人健康责任是一个多维概念，受到个人、社会和文化因素的影响，强调它可能对人们的健康产生积极和消极影响。为使这一概念在健康促进中有效，关注个人和社会背景、健康状况以及社区和健康政策制定者对个人健康责任的看法很重要。
