personal responsibility for health
- noun
:
responsabilidad personal por la salud
- Understanding personal responsibility for health encourages individuals to make informed decisions about their diet and exercise.
Examples
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Many doctors emphasize the importance of personal responsibility for health in preventing chronic diseases.
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Historian Xaq Frohlich interprets this shift as a way to "embed notions about personal responsibility for health into the ways that food was designed, marketed, and consumed." 91
Academic text (2016) -
Educating young people about personal responsibility for health can lead to healthier lifestyle choices.
Surface Forms
Morphology
personal + responsibility + for + health
The meaning is directly and compositionally built from the parts: 'responsibility' (duty) + 'for health' (regarding health) with 'personal' restricting that duty to the individual. This combination follows transparent, cross-linguistically common semantic logic, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words should be able to infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Personal responsibility for health gives a clear picture: one person holding their own small first-aid kit and a checklist of daily choices for eating and exercise, showing the idea of personal action for health. So it means being 'in charge of your own health' and responsible for the results of your choices.
