Health behavior
Health behavior Health behavior
4. Concept of sickness career• Illness – disability - includes changes in social identityand behavior-related expectations• Concept of career – status change – an individual movesfrom one social identity to the other• Total status sum = career• sick-leave, ageing, dying - specific careers• Patient career - provisional statuses (social identities)and goal of sickness career depend on disease type,patient type, and social and cultural circumstances inwhich the sickness career develops
• Main decisions associated with change of socialidentities in sickness career:1. basic line of health state – different meanings of ‘being healthy’2. decision that a change has occurred in relation to a normal,healthy state3. decision that a certain change is important (deviation fromhealth) - assessment on symptom severity/seriousnessdependent on:- extent to which symptoms pervade the normal activities; symptomclarity; tolerance threshold; understanding concrete symptoms;assumptions of cause, prognosis; interpersonal impact; other lifecrises
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4. Concept of sickness career• Illness – disability - includes changes in social identityand <strong>behavior</strong>-related expectations• Concept of career – status change – an individual movesfrom one social identity to the other• Total status sum = career• sick-leave, ageing, dying - specific careers• Patient career - provisional statuses (social identities)and goal of sickness career depend on disease type,patient type, and social and cultural circumstances inwhich the sickness career develops
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