dc.contributor.author | Eriksen, Hege Randi | |
dc.contributor.author | Hellesnes, Brit | |
dc.contributor.author | Staff, Peer | |
dc.contributor.author | Ursin, Holger | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-09-19T06:57:57Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-09-19T06:57:57Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2004 | eng |
dc.Published | International journal of behavioral medicine 11(2): 122-125 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1070-5503 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1956/1876 | |
dc.description | Reproduced with the permission of Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. For inquiries about further use of this article, please contact the publisher. | en |
dc.description.abstract | Subjective health complaints without or with minimal somatic findings (pain, fatigue) are common and frequent reasons for encounter with the general practitioner and for long-term sickness leave and disability. The complaints are often attributed to the stressors of modern life. Is this true? We interviewed 120 Aborigine Mangyans (native population, M age = 33.5 years, 72.5% women) living under primitive conditions in the jungle of Mindoro, an island in the Philippines, and 101 persons living in a small coastal town on the same island (coastal population, M age = 33.8 years, 60.4% women). Both groups had more musculoskeletal complaints, fatigue, mood changes, and gastrointestinal complaints than a representative sample from the Norwegian population (N = 1,243). Our common subjective health complaints, therefore, are not specific for industrialized societies. | en_US |
dc.format.extent | 93314 bytes | eng |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | eng |
dc.language.iso | eng | eng |
dc.publisher | Lawrence Erlbaum Associates | eng |
dc.subject | Subjective health complaints | eng |
dc.subject | Cultural | eng |
dc.subject | Unexplained medical symptoms | eng |
dc.subject | Illness | eng |
dc.subject | Disease | eng |
dc.subject | Health | eng |
dc.title | Are subjective health complaints a result of modern civilization? | eng |
dc.type | Peer reviewed | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
dc.rights.holder | Copyright 2004 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. | |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1207/s15327558ijbm1102_9 | |
dc.subject.nsi | VDP::Medisinske Fag: 700::Helsefag: 800 | nob |