POPH3000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Health Belief Model, Social Learning Theory, Health Promotion
12 Jan 2020
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These 3 are the most important factors in determining health outcome sand are strongly interrelated. Socio-economic factors drive variation in disease and health promotion between and within countries. Better employment and income -> even in developed countries. Behaviour is the most important factor when environmental conditions are sufficient. Who: process of enabling people to increase control over their health and its determinants, and thereby improve their health . Dietary fat intake, consumption of fruit and vegetables, regular physical activity, abstaining from tobacco, adhering to medication regimen, and managing stress and weight. Improvements in behaviour can have tremendous health impacts (short and long term) Advise all smokers to quit -> in a personal and direct manner. Assess smokers" willingness to quit -> mechanisms to quit, work out why a patient doesn"t want to quit and address that. Assist smoker in attempts to quit -> quit plan, finishing date, maintenance of abstinence.
