[The health image among the inhabitants of Lorraine. A psycho social approach to the representations of health (author's transl)].
How does the population define health? To put to the test the techniques of a socio-psychological approach to this question, a study was made on a sample of the population of Lorraine who underwent a medical examination: a straight forward question on the best definition of health put to 4,000 participants received 6,172 replies which were classified according to 41 principal themes (or definitions), themselves logically grouped under 10 headings (or groups of definitions). In the different socio-professional categories, which proved to be the most relevant, there was a gradded series of health definitions. It thus appears that the health image varies according to the relationship of the individual to society through his job, since among manual workers the health image is more negative and socialized than among white collar workers where the image is more positive and personalized.
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L'image de la santé dans une population lorraine: approche psychosociale des représentations de la santé.