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This article proposes some alternative views of the functioning, social role and significant variables for the analysis of self-help health groups. The writer discusses his differences with formulations advanced by Victor and Ruth Sidel, and by John Williamson, in articles in recent (1977) issues of Social Science and Medicine . He rejects the Sidels' contentions that self-help health groups are not concerned with prevention, with improving universal access to medical care, and that they are themselves engaged in primary care. The weaknesses of Williamson's analytical variables are discussed, and other, more significant variables presented. |
