Health Belief Models

Question 1

Health belief models

Answer 1

Clinical model 
Role-performance model 
Adaption model 
Eudemonistic model 
Agent-host-environment model  
Health continuum model

Question 2

Clinical model

Answer 2

Narrowed view of health care
Considers physiological only
Absence of symptoms and disease = health

Question 3

Role performance model

Answer 3

Considers someone healthy if they can function efficiently at work
Bad because people lives aren’t just their work
Eg. Man with tumour or chronic depression = healthy because he can still be an accountant

Question 4

Adaptive model

Answer 4

Disease is seen as failure to adapt or maladaption
Focus on allowing the person to cop in their situation, to adapt
So if there is a way to function again without actually restoring health that makes them health
Eg. Using crutches and never healing a snapped ligament

Question 5

Eudemonistic model

Answer 5

Focus on the potential of life and sees health as actualisation of that potential
Illness is seen as an obstacle or barrier to achieving full potential

Question 6

Agent-host-environment model (ecological model)

Answer 6

More a theory of the causes of disease
Used to predict illness not promote wellness
Three major parts interact
Agent: potential pathogen or health risk
Host: the person at risk
Environment: the surrounding environment that does not pose a risk to the person

Question 7

Health-Illness continuum

Answer 7

Used to measure a persons perceived level of wellness

• Dunns high level wellness grid
• Travis’s illness/wellness continuum.