Research project Health identity - illness identity, concepts and applications
Research shows that one's health and illness-related identity is decisive for which health-promoting, disease-preventing and rehabilitative measures the individual performs. How people perceive themselves in the sense of I'm healthy, I'm sick etc. thus appears as an important basis for people's future health.
At the same time, there are no concepts of health identity or illness identity that are sufficiently known to be considered established and widely used. Instead, most researchers seem to come up with their own theoretical approaches.
A first step in working for a conceptual reliability, i.e. to be sure of talking about the same phenomenon when the same word is used, is considered to be writing a research review that presents existing concepts and examines what consequences the application of different concepts could have in health work. To carry out such a research overview is the purpose of the project.
Project members
Project managers
Pelle Pelters
Senior lecturer
