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Ziebland, Sue, Rasmussen, Birgit, MacArtney, John I., Hajdarevic, Senada and Sand Andersen, Rikke (2019) How wide is the Goldilocks Zone in your health system? Journal of Health Services Research & Policy, 24 (1). pp. 52-56. doi:10.1177/1355819618790985 ISSN 1355-8196.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1355819618790985
Abstract
In astrophysics, the ‘Goldilocks Zone’ describes the circumstellar habitable zone, in which planets, sufficiently similar to Earth, could support human life. The children’s story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, one of the most popular fairy tales in the English language, uses this metaphor to describe conditions for life that are neither too hot nor too cold and neither too close to the sun nor too far from its warmth. We propose that the ‘Goldilocks Zone’ also offers an apt metaphor for the struggle that people face when deciding if and when to consult a health care provider with a possible health problem. Drawing on decades of research in Denmark, England and Sweden on people’s accounts of their experiences of accessing health care, this essay considers the ambivalence of health care seeking that individuals face in identifying when it is ‘just right’ to consult a general practitioner and the steps that health systems and individual clinicians might take to widen the zone.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Medical care -- Denmark, Public health -- Denmark, Medical care -- Sweden, Public health -- Sweden, Medical care -- England, Public health -- England | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Health Services Research & Policy | ||||||||
Publisher: | Royal Society of Medicine Press Ltd. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1355-8196 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 1 January 2019 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 24 | ||||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 52-56 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1177/1355819618790985 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 3 August 2018 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 6 August 2018 |
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