Knowledge matters: producing and using knowledge to navigate healthcare systems

摘要: ABSTRACTIn many contemporary healthcare systems, individuals are expected to be rational actors – weighing up available knowledge and making choices about their needs. In the policy context, this has been most explicitly applied financing of where there is encouragement for purchase private health insurance. However, perceptions public provision, needs, types services people choose, far from straightforward. Drawing on Bourdieu’s concepts habitus, field, capital, a study individual experiences choice in Australian healthcare, we explore knowledges used by as they navigate through system. Such navigation takes place milieu authoritative medical intersects with other sources, including Internet lived experience. our reveals that assisted all capacity draw ‘...