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El títol complet és: Culture and Gender Effects on How Healthcare Consumers Respond to Adverse Medical Diagnoses.

En línia.

A càrrec de Verónica Martín Ruiz (Marketing).

In an increasingly culturally-diverse U.S., understanding how healthcare consumers from different backgrounds respond to Adverse Medical Diagnoses (AMDs), is important for developing adequate interventions. AMD is defined as the pronouncement of a debilitating medical condition that elevates uncertainty in a healthcare consumer’s future life trajectory. A doctor telling us that we have pancreatic cancer is an example. In two studies, this paper explores how healthcare consumers from honor and dignity cultures (where a person’s worth is both internal and external vs. internal only, respectively) respond to AMDs. I hypothesize that culture, gender, and medical condition stigma influence whether a healthcare consumer accepts or denies an AMD as preambles to adherence or non-adherence to prescribed health-focused behaviors. Results are presented and theoretical and practical implications from identified influences are identified.