Beliefs About Health and Illness in Latin-American Migrants with Diabetes Living in Sweden

Table 2: Beliefs About Health

Main Analytical Category ¹	Subcategory	Quotation
Individual factors	Freedom from disease	‘that you do not have any disease’ (F4)
	A feeling of well-being	‘to feel good’ (F 3)
	Control/autonomy	‘to have control over oneself’ (M1)
	Physical and intellectual health as a prerequisite for being able to work	‘Health allows me to work … work and health are related … a physical health status … and a healthy mind so that one can function intellectually’ (M9)

¹ Analytical categories according to the lay model of illness causation by Helman (2007) in which causes of illness could be related to the individual, nature, social relations and/or the supernatural world.