Challenges and Risks
Habib, Shah Ehsan
This thesis is aimed at investigating the patterns of injecting drug use and hepatitis C (HCV).Traditional psychological models are unable to explain why people cannot avoid risk behaviour in certain situations. By contrast, the harm reduction model, despite being relatively poorly theorised, can be seen as useful in giving an account of behaviour change, with particular reference to HCV-related risk behaviour.The thesis uses a self-reported q...