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ADHERENCE TO MEDICAL ADVICE The Health Organisation 1996 says that: 'Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity'. Adherence to medical advice includes why people don't adhere to medical advice, measuring adherence and improving adherence. Barat et al.(2001) conducted semi-structured interviews in which they aimed to find the variables that affect adherence to health requests made by General Practitioners (GP). The information gathered was collected from 350 70 year olds who were visited by experimenters, who looked in their medicine cupboard and asked them questions about the frequency of taking the medicine and about the medicine itself. The GP's of the patients were also asked about their patient's prescription, which was compared to the answers given by the participants. It was found that there was disagreement by 22% over the medicine, 71% over the doses, 69% over the treatment...

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