Understanding Health Behaviour Flashcards
Health Promotion
The process of enabling people to increase control over their health and its improvement, to reach the fullest health potential.
Predisposing factors
Knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, values, and perceptions that promote or hinder the motivation to change health behaviour.
Reinforcing factors
Rewards/satisfactions and the feedback received from influential significant others after a behaviour change.
Enabling factors
Skills, resources, or barriers that promote or hinder the behavioural or environmental changes that are necessary for achieving the desired health outcome
Intervention strategies (which question will be answered)
What are you going to do?
Implementation strategies (Which question will be answered)
How are you going to do it?
Evaluation strategies (Which question will be answered)
Which criteria need to be met to declare the program successful and how will this be measured?
Perceived severity
the extent to which one beliefs that a threat is serious
Perceived susceptibility
the likelihood of being influenced by a threat
self-efficacy
the belief that one can follow the recommended actions
response efficacy
the belief about the effectiveness of the recommended actions
instrumental attitude
the tendency to respond positively or negatively to a behaviour based on expected consequences
experiential attitude
the tendency to respond positively or negatively to a behaviour based on experiences
perceived injunctive norms
reflects how important others expect us to behave
perceived descriptive norms
reflect how we think we should behave based on what others are doing
Perceived capacity
the belief that the individual is able to perform the behaviour
perceived autonomy
the extent to which the belief is under the control of the individual
motivation
the drive that causes a human being to act/engage in certain behaviours to achieve certain goals
habit
learned sequence of behaviour that is the results of frequent performance in similar situations, cued by environmental factors
micro-environment
settings where groups of people gather for specific purposes
macro-environment
groups of industries, services, or supporting infrastructure
