Health Sciences 2250A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Health Promotion, Health Belief Model, Social Inequality
14 Jul 2016
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There are several kinds of behavior change theories. There are lots of different entry points in intervening in health promotion. Organizational health promotional interventions that take place on institutional levels. Address behavior at an individual level (directly with people: originally developed by social psychologists to help explain why people would not use health services (e. g. tb screening) A way of trying to understand why people did/didn"t go for tb screening: one of the first models developed exclusively for health-related behaviors o o o o. Based on the idea that people will decide whether or not to do something that is health related (do something about their health) based on a series of variables. Frequently used in the design of health promotion interventions. Only about you and your personal decisions: hypothesizes that health-related action depends on simultaneous occurrence of: o. Existence of health issue that feels relevant and feel serious (perceived susceptibility/severity)
