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Family-focused preventive interventions with cancer cosurvivors: A call to action

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  • Niemelä, M.
  • Marshall, C.A.
  • Kroll, T.
  • Curran, M.
  • Koerner, S.S.
  • Räsänen, S.
  • García, F.

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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. © 2013 American Public Health Association.

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  • Niemelä, M. & Marshall, C.A. & Kroll, T. & Curran, M. & Koerner, S.S. & Räsänen, S. & García, F., 2016. "Family-focused preventive interventions with cancer cosurvivors: A call to action," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 106(8), pages 1381-1387.
    • Handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:10.2105/ajph.2016.303178_4
    DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2016.303178
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