Chapter 8 - Using health Services

Question 1

Appraisal delay

Answer 1

The time between recognizing that a symptom exists, and deciding that it is serious

Question 2

Behavioral delay

Answer 2

The time between deciding to see treatment and actually doing so

Question 3

Common sense model of illness

Answer 3

A model maintaining that people hold implicit common sense beliefs about their symptoms and illnesses that result in organized, illness, representations, or schemas, and that influence their treatment decisions and adherence

Question 4

Delay behavior

Answer 4

The act of delaying seeking treatment for recognize symptoms

Question 5

Illness delay

Answer 5

The time between recognizing that a symptom implies an illness and the decision to seek treatment

Question 6

Illness representations

Answer 6

And organized set of beliefs about an illness or a type of illness, including its nature, cause duration and consequences

Question 7

Lay referral network

Answer 7

A informal network of family and friends, who help an individual, interpret and treat a disorder before the individual six formal medical treatment

Question 8

Medical delay

Answer 8

A delay in treating symptoms which results from problems within the medical system, such as faulty diagnoses, or lost test results

Question 9

Medical students disease

Answer 9

The relabeling of symptoms of fatigue and exhaustion as a particular illness, resulting from learning about that illness, called medical students disease because overworked medical students are vulnerable to this labeling affect

Question 10

Secondary gains

Answer 10

Benefits of being treated for illness, including the ability to rest to be free from unpleasant tasks, and to be taken care of by others