Negotiating a healthy body in old age: preventive home visits and biopolitics

The study discussed in this article sheds light on how a specific publichealth policy, the preventive home visit (PHV) aimed at senior citizens, is implemented at the local level in Denmark. Empirically the article calls attention to what is actually going on in a preventive practice, based on part...

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Main Author: Lene Otto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Linköping University Electronic Press 2013-10-01
Series:International Journal of Ageing and Later Life
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Online Access:https://journal.ep.liu.se/IJAL/article/view/1241

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