Family-Focused Preventive Interventions With Cancer Cosurvivors: A Call to Action.

• Autores: Mika Niemelä, Catherine A Marshall, Thilo Kroll, Melissa Curran, Susan Silverberg Koerner, Sami Räsänen, Francisco García
• Localización: American journal of public health, ISSN 0090-0036, Vol. 106, Nº. 8, 2016, págs. 1381-1387
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Health promotion and preventive action in the context of public health interventions for highly prevalent, long-term conditions such as cancer are rarely geared toward the family as a whole. Yet familymembers, as cancer cosurvivors, must manage their own substantial stress and multiple caregiving responsibilities and often constitute a critical nexus between individual patients and clinicians. We drew on 2 examples of cancer cosurvivorship from 2 different health service contexts, the United States and Finland. A systemic approach in public health is needed to support family members who not only have to confront the meaning of long-term conditions such as cancer but also may have to manage concurrent social life challenges and stressors such as economic hardship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]