Chapter 4 Flashcards
(40 cards)
Health enhancing
Actions people make that improve their health (being active and characteristics of a healthy diet)
Health damaging
Actions people make that can damage their health (excessive drinking and tobacco use)
Why is theory a best practice in health education & promotion?
- Theory helps organize various forms of knowledge (data, facts, and information) so that they take on meaning that would not occur if the pieces of knowledge were presented in isolation.
- Theory helps education specialist plan, implement and evaluate programs.
- Using theory is consistent with using evidence based interventions in public health.
Behavior change theory
Behavior change theories provide a platform for understanding why people engage in health risk or health compromising behaviors, and why they adopt health protected behaviors.
Program planning models
- Program planning, models help guide the practice of health educators.
- Program planning models implement and evaluate programs
Socio-ecological model
- A multilevel interactive approach that examines how physical social, political, economic and cultural dimensions, influence behaviors and conditions.
- the model was created to understand human development.
Intrapersonal
Individual characteristics that influence behavior such as knowledge, attitudes, believes, and personality traits.
Interpersonal
Interpersonal processes and primary groups including family, friends, and peers that provide social identity, support, and role.
Organizational
Rules, regulations, policies, and informal structures which may constrain or promote recommended behaviors
Community
Social networks and norms, or standards which exist as formal or informal among individuals, groups, and organizations
Public policy
Local, state, and federal policies and laws that regulate or support healthy actions and practices for disease prevention, early detection, control and management
Physical environment
Natural and built environment
Culture
Shared beliefs, values, behaviors, and practices of a population
Health Belief Model
- Addresses a persons perception of the threat of a health problem and the accompanying appraisal of a recommended behavior for preventing or managing a problem
- developed by a group of psychologists in 1950 to help explain why people used or did not use health services
Cues to action
The stimulus needed to trigger the decision-making process to accept a recommended health action
Perceived susceptibility
Belief about the chances of getting a disease or condition
Perceived seriousness
- The negative consequences and individual associates with an event or outcome such as diagnosis of cancer.
- these consequences may relate to an anticipated event that may occur in the future, or to a current situation that were difficult or troubling to the individual, and we’re described by respondents and narrative forms, such as pre-existing health problem
Perceived threat
A situation that is difficult or troubling to a person
Perceived benefits
Belief about the positive outcomes associated with a behavior in response to a real or perceived threat
Perceived barriers
A persons estimation of the level of challenge of social, personal, environmental, and economics obstacles to a specified behavior or their desired goal status on that behavior
Reduction of threat
The difference between the benefits of and the benefits of something specific
Self-efficacy
One’s confidence to do a skill or task and to overcome barriers
Theory of planned behavior
Individuals intention to perform a given behavior, which is a function of their attitude toward performing the behavior, their believes about what relevant others think they should do, and their perception of the ease or difficulty of performing the behavior
Attitude toward the behavior
Have a positive attitude toward quitting
